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Imperfect Releases: Andrew Hastie, War Crimes Reports and Australia in Afghanistan – » The Australian Independent Media Network

If one were to get into the head of Australian government MP Andrew Hastie, a security tangle of woe would no doubt await. Having been a captain with the Special Air Services and having also served in Afghanistan, he has been none too thrilled by the publicity soldiers he served with have received. The report by New South Wales Court of Appeal Justice Paul Brereton has now been mandatory reading (or skimming) for political and military watchers. Known rather dully as the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry Report, it makes the claim that 39 alleged murders were inflicted on non-combatants by Australian special service units when operating in Afghanistan.

Hastie’s speech has a throbbing subtext: containment. Despite professing a belief in the rule of law and transparency, the overwhelming sense from the politician who chairs the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security is that the Inquiry should have been kept indoors. Such bloodied laundry should never have been aired. That, at the very least, would have avoided public discussions about the egregious methods of Australia’s elite warriors, and the decisions behind deploying them in the first place.

Imperfect Releases: Andrew Hastie, War Crimes Reports and Australia in Afghanistan – » The Australian Independent Media Network
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Andrew Hastie’s contribution to our China effort? Curious and curiouser | Katharine Murphy | Australia news | The Guardian

Member for Canning Andrew Hastie (left) and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull

As head of the Intelligence Committee Hastie has made himself a leaker  untrustworthy in terms of sharing information as he’s blurted. Blurted thethe unspeakable like Mossad is spying on us or so is the USA and they are both withholding the sharing of information with us. Very unintelligent move by Captain Hastie. So yes it still makes sense this ultra conservative wanted to  or was instructed to undermine Turnbull’s and Bishop’s efforts at reproachment.  (ODT)

Curious, isn’t it? A parliamentarian gives a heads up to the spooks, but not to his own prime minister.

ask  why a member of the government would want to sabotage the government’s own diplomatic efforts, you get a couple of theories.

1)The first one is obvious. Hastie runs with conservatives hostile to Turnbull and Bishop.

2) He sees the world in binary and black and white terms “absolutist”,  a simplistic worldview which could explain the behaviour.

 

 

 Andrew Hastie’s contribution to our China effort? Curious and curiouser | Katharine Murphy | Australia news | The Guardian

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View from The Hill: Hastie and Turnbull – what you don’t know, you can’t stop

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Three Coalition MPs caught out claiming endorsements they simply never received| (The Army stepped away from this man.)

In mid-2016, Hastie was abruptly severed from the apolitical Army Reserves for using unauthorised images of himself in military gear for his Federal election campaign material (see above).

In keeping with established Liberal tradition, of course, Hastie was entirely unrepentant, reportedly claiming that the ADF had “used a bit of policy to try and push me around”.

The people of Canning were clamouring to see him in his camos, Hastie affirmed:

“I had to decide whose authority I answered to. It was the people of Canning. As a Federal parliamentarian, I don’t take orders from the military.”

With that sort of desire to not take orders from his lawful military commanders, we can be sure the decision to hand Hastie his marching orders was not a difficult one to reach.

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