The Brereton inquiry found âcredibleâ evidence to implicate 25 current or former ADF personnel in the alleged unlawful killing of 39 individuals and the cruel treatment of two others.
The newly released reform plan confirms the chief of the ADF, Gen Angus Campbell, will consider whether there were failures in command accountability and, if so, what action is appropriate.
But the document raises the prospect that such action could be delayed to avoid affecting the ongoing work of the Office of the Special Investigator (OSI) or the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) â the bodies that will prepare and consider briefs evidence for potential prosecution.
If we are going to reform the ADF, ‘culture’ isn’t the answer
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If we are going to reform the ADF, ‘culture’ isn’t the answer
How does any organisation identify its own blind spots? One of the most significant changes made to the ADF in recent times was about who could work, not how they did so.
By Samantha Crompvoets
Credit:Dean Sewell, ADF
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Why do we so often reach for culture to explain organisational issues? Perhaps because it is intuitive to do so. It provides a signpost for organisation-wide characteristics and matters of importance. But does it provide clarity or obscurity when it comes to really understanding a problem? Does it lead to accountability, or is it a barrier to the taking of responsibility? How do you even know when you’ve achieved cultural change? Should we in fact be considering other ways of analysing and addressing dee
Morrison reaches out to military for new mandarins
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has again reached out to military and intelligence specialists to lead key public service agencies, appointing three new department secretaries with strong defence backgrounds.
Kathryn Campbell, a former Human Services chief and a major-general in the Australian Army Reserve, has been appointed secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to replace Frances Adamson. Ms Adamson has been appointed the governor of South Australia.
Social Services secretary and Australian Army Reserve Major-General Kathryn Campbell will lead the Foreign Affairs department.Â
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Mr Morrison also appointed former Chief of Navy Ray Griggs to take over Ms Campbellâs position as secretary of the Social Services Department.
The team, dubbed the “untouchables” by one former detective, will work under the auspices of the Australian Federal Police and the Office of the Special Investigator, where Mr Stock was recently in a senior role.
The Office of the Special Investigator is expected to face intense legal, political and media scrutiny as its teams work with the AFP to bring accused former SAS and Commandos operatives to trial. The AFP has never conducted a successful war crimes investigation and its ability to investigate the Brereton inquiry allegations looms as a test for AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw.
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Mr Stock is one of two senior managers at the Office of the Special Investigator who will report to the investigatory body’s chiefs, former Queensland Police deputy commissioner Ross Barnett and senior Victorian Court of Appeal judge Mark Weinberg, QC.
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