THE FEDERAL Government had no basis to suppress a report that was critical of a $2.2bn arms deal involving Army s Hawkei, a tribunal has found. Thales Australia - owned by French military giant Thales - won the contract to build the army s light-armoured patrol vehicle, the Hawkei, in 2015. Armoured vehicle designer Jacobus De Wet was involved in the vehicle s initial submissions phase, where he and other directors at Protected Transport Systems designed and tested their version of the landmine and ballistically protected vehicle. The defence contractor s submission was denied and instead awarded to Thales Australia. Protected Transport Systems prototype undergoing blast testing in 2010. Picture: SUPPLIED
It concluded that the ABC would benefit from broadening its pool of contributors to better reflect the range of perspectives available to discuss a given topic. One solution would have been to have secured more conservative-leaning political commentators as panellists. Those conservative voices could have articulated, with conviction, that there was a Coalition path to victory, the report said.
The review also analysed 51 items on the Australia Votes pages of the ABC News website and found that the articles were four times as likely to reflect a negative assessment of the Coalition than to reflect a negative assessment of Labor.
2020-12-10 19:18 By: GMW.cn
A computer-generated picture posted by Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian ignited the rages of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
What the picture depicted was an Australian soldier posing to slit the throat of a young Afghan boy. It referred to the bloody killing of 39 unarmed prisoners and civilians in 2009-13. Nineteen current or former members of the Australian special forces in service in Afghanistan have allegedly committed the crime. These awful revelations were made by the Australian military s own investigations.
Malnourished Afghan children sat with their mothers as they received medical care in the ITFC (Inpatient Therapeutic Feeding Centre) ward at the Bost Hospital, a Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) assisted hospital, on September 24, 2013 in Lashkar Gah, in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.(photo by Daniel Berehulak/provided to Guangming Picture)
Radical Fix For Australia’s ‘Broken’ Family Court System Met With Resistance
Legal bodies and the federal opposition are vehemently opposing a “radical” move to merge the Family Court of Australia with the Federal Court.
One expert however says the merger is a step in the right direction and will provide “considerable benefits” to families navigating the system.
The Family Court of Australia has been the subject to four parliamentary inquiries over the past two decades seeking to address what former Law Council of Australia President Arthur Moses SC once described as “broken.”
Late last year, the federal government announced a new Bill which would merge both courts into one entity.