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- Comment on Telstra, Optus to delay 3G network closure amid public safety concerns 2 months ago:
Yep, this is me. Bought 1 yr vodafone prepaid, after getting reminded to enable VoLTE on my phone (a 2019 model), which I did. But, the phone doesn’t actually do VoLTE calls, so come Vodafone’s 3g shutdown weeks later I suddenly could no longer make or receive ANY phone calls. Internet/data works fine.
Ended up getting a cheap new phone just so I can make phone calls in an emergency.
- How did we get here? - campaign video for ADF whistleblower David McBride's court appealwww.youtube.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on ADF whistleblower David McBride moved to maximum security and "has no access to natural light & restricted contact with his daughters." 3 months ago:
I’d really like to know what else was in the bags of documents David McBride handed the AFP and what else was in the documents he gave to journalists including ABC’s Dan Oakes.
- Comment on ADF whistleblower David McBride moved to maximum security and "has no access to natural light & restricted contact with his daughters." 3 months ago:
Boyboy are obviously comedians. I doubt they’re actually best friends with David.
If you’re looking for independent reporting, this is a good place to start: …com.au/david-mcbride-sentencing-reserved-as-defe…
- Comment on ADF whistleblower David McBride moved to maximum security and "has no access to natural light & restricted contact with his daughters." 3 months ago:
The boyboy video you linked is probably the best explainer of the whole situation.
- Comment on ADF whistleblower David McBride moved to maximum security and "has no access to natural light & restricted contact with his daughters." 3 months ago:
You’ve commented the exact same thing in a previous post on this. Please actually engage with the counter-arguments and materials I responded with here .
That is some twisted narrative the abc has been spinning about their own source.
If David hadn’t wanted to expose the murders, he wouldn’t have leaked evidence of it. What’s more, he leaked evidence of their cover-up up to the highest ranks, which could be argued is he graver war-crime, since it fosters a culture of impunity.
It is true that David saw some soldiers, who served in Afghanistan the year after a lot of those murders took place, prosecuted unfairly, the way he saw it. He believes the Defence leadership were scape-goating these soldiers to be seen to be doing something about war crimes when in reality they continued the cover-up for the murderers. This flauting of command responsibility is the bigger story which the abc continues to ignore.
Edit: also, motive was never discussed during trial. Trial only ever got as far as pre-trial, where the justice ruled on the meaning of ‘duty’ (just follow your orders) and in a closed session allowed the govt to scoop away David’s evidence, leading him to plead guilty.
- Comment on "I'm in prison for blowing the whistle on the Australian Defence Force" 3 months ago:
🚨 News hit today that David is in maximum security prison! He has no natural sunlight and restricted contact with his daughters.
I’ve posted about it here feddit.nl/post/18277656
- Comment on "I'm in prison for blowing the whistle on the Australian Defence Force" 3 months ago:
🚨 News hit today that David is in maximum security prison! He has no natural sunlight and restricted contact with his daughters.
I’ve posted about it here feddit.nl/post/18277656
- ADF whistleblower David McBride moved to maximum security and "has no access to natural light & restricted contact with his daughters."x.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 13 comments
- Submitted 3 months ago to controversial@sh.itjust.works | 1 comment
- Comment on "I'm in prison for blowing the whistle on the Australian Defence Force" 3 months ago:
That’s right, his daughter kept asking him to come to the father-daughter dance at school. Eventually he caved.
- Comment on "I'm in prison for blowing the whistle on the Australian Defence Force" 3 months ago:
That is some twisted narrative the abc has been spinning about their own source.
If David hadn’t wanted to expose the murders, he wouldn’t have leaked evidence of it. What’s more, he leaked evidence of their cover-up up to the highest ranks, which could be argued is he graver war-crime, since it fosters a culture of impunity.
It is true that David saw some soldiers, who served in Afghanistan the year after a lot of those murders took place, prosecuted unfairly, the way he saw it. He believes the Defence leadership were scape-goating these soldiers to be seen to be doing something about war crimes when in reality they continued the cover-up for the murderers. This flauting of command responsibility is the bigger story which the abc continues to ignore.
- Submitted 4 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 9 comments
- Comment on John Shipton: "Julian Assange can be freed with a phone call." Speach outside Prime Minister Albanese's Office, 09-12-2023 10 months ago:
Now you sound even more like bigshot Mike. Are you him perchance? Was it your intention for the indictment to be littered with the words ‘publish’, ‘published’, ‘publishing’, ‘public’, ‘publicly’, ‘publication’; ‘disseminate’, ‘dissemination’, ‘redactions’, ‘redacting’, ‘redacted’?
- Comment on John Shipton: "Julian Assange can be freed with a phone call." Speach outside Prime Minister Albanese's Office, 09-12-2023 10 months ago:
Antidote101, you sound like former CIA head and Trump’s state secretary Mike Pompeo, who in 2017 redefined WikiLeaks as a ‘non-state hostile intelligence service, often abetted by state actors like Russia’, before he got the CIA to draw up secret plans to have him kidnapped or killed.
The Biden administration is continuing Trump’s war on journalism with this persecution.
- Comment on John Shipton: "Julian Assange can be freed with a phone call." Speach outside Prime Minister Albanese's Office, 09-12-2023 11 months ago:
“Julian Assange can be freed with a phone call. The government can ring up their colleagues in the United Kingdom and say, you know:
‘send him home, his visa’s expired and serve the expiration date notice on him. Anything that the United States wants we can handle here’.
That is a clear possibility.”
“The 13 years we witnessed acquiescence to whatever the United States and the United Kingdom wanted to do to Julian.”
“All of the people of Australia have bound together and brought into being a meme that spread into government, into parliament, into the congress, that Julian must be returned home. So it’s our congratulations that Anthony Albanese says in Parliament: ‘I see no benefit in this persecution continuing.’ Well he doesn’t say persecution. I’ll help him out there.”
- Submitted 11 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- John Shipton: "Julian Assange can be freed with a phone call." Speach outside Prime Minister Albanese's Office, 09-12-2023odysee.com ↗Submitted 11 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 5 comments
- Submitted 11 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- David McBride writes in his book The Nature of Honour that for the SAS in Afghanistan, ‘leadership encouraged dishonesty’www.afr.com ↗Submitted 11 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on LEFT WITH NO DEFENSE, McBRIDE PLEADS GUILTY 11 months ago:
McBride’s lawyer Davis said:
“It was the fatal blow made in conjunction with the decision made a few days ago that limits what we can say to the jury on David’s behalf in terms of what was his duty as an officer was on the oath he took to serve, as we say, the interests of the Australian people. Well the ruling was, he doesn’t have a duty to serve the interests of the Australian people. He has a duty to follow orders. That is a very narrow understanding of the law in our view that takes us back really pre-World War II. We all know how military law has been judged since then in terms of compliance to follow orders. So facing that reality, we’re limited in terms of what we could put to a jury in term’s of David’s duty … together with the removal of evidence makes it impossible, realistically, to go to trial. It is a sad day and a difficult day for us to advise David on his options this afternoon and he embraced them.”
- Submitted 11 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Whistleblower David McBride pleads guilty after court rules to withhold evidence over ‘security’ riskwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 11 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
- Comment on Defence whistleblower could plead guilty after appeal rejected 11 months ago:
UPDATE: David McBride has just plead guilty. twitter.com/CathyVoganSPK/…/1725373553011482853
- Comment on Defence whistleblower could plead guilty after appeal rejected 11 months ago:
Yes it is outrageous. There a many in Australia who care about this a lot as is clear from the number of donors who raised funds for his legal defence. We need more people to talk about this. Buy his book The Nature of Honour, out this week and display it wherever you are. David will keep fighting from jail but we need to all fight for him. Talk to your MP. Demand the Attorney General intervene and drop this case.
- Submitted 11 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 9 comments
- Comment on Whistleblower David McBride declares ‘today I serve my country’ as trial starts over alleged leaking of war crime documents 11 months ago:
Lounging at the beach?
- Comment on Whistleblower David McBride declares ‘today I serve my country’ as trial starts over alleged leaking of war crime documents 11 months ago:
This summary misses a key point:
McBride’s defence says he had a separate duty to act in the public interest
- Whistleblower David McBride declares ‘today I serve my country’ as trial starts over alleged leaking of war crime documentswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 11 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 6 comments
- Comment on There's a big misconception about mobile phones and driving, and it's putting us at risk 1 year ago:
The solution is not to chide people. Their behaviour is not gonna change. The solution is to urban plan the need for car use away for most people. Less urban sprawl. More urban centers. More medium-density housing. Better public transport. You name it.