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Australia’s DFAT blocks FOI request on Israel apartheid status – Pearls and Irritations

The letters of the word Paelstine made up by the word Israel

Israel has assassinated people on foreign soil using fake Australian documents to facilitate their crimes. It has kidnapped people from Australia without any government permission. It has held Australian citizens in jail without informing us of their existence and has simply spied on us as if we were its enemy. It has misused its relationship with Australia in so many ways and we have always turned the other way and allowed them to abuse that relationship,why?

In November 2022, I brought a Freedom of Information (FOI) request for the Australian Government to disclose the basis of its non-acceptance of the reports that apartheid exists in Israel. Last week, DFAT rejected the request on the risible basis that to process it would “unreasonably divert the department’s resources.”

Source: Australia’s DFAT blocks FOI request on Israel apartheid status – Pearls and Irritations

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Security agencies assume greater role in Australian policymaking

The question taxing many is why are our security services and not the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) running our relationship with China? The answer is complex and begins with the onset of the Howard era in 1996 and continues to this day.

Security agencies assume greater role in Australian policymaking
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Adani: DFAT facing questions over possible secret requests for foreign cash to fund controversial mine – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

“It is not the role of the Australian Government or its diplomatic missions to be involved as finance brokers for a very controversial project like this,” he said.”There needs to be an open and transparent process.”

Remember Kemlani and what happened to Whitlam (Old Dog) Loans affair – Wikipedia

Source: Adani: DFAT facing questions over possible secret requests for foreign cash to fund controversial mine – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Compounding Abbott’s ABC lies: Cut the bullshit, Malcolm

 

 

Julie Bishop out of pure retribution cut the ABC’s DFAT contract. 40 years of Broadcasting to the Pacific Island Nations has been handed to the Chinese. So much for us being the pivot of the Pacific pillock is closer to the mark.

Compounding Abbott’s ABC lies: Cut the bullshit, Malcolm.

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Julie Bishop fails to mention that the $40mill Trade for Aid delivered to Cambodia has come from the pockets of the ABC abandoning our Pacific neighbours

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Australia Network set to go off the air in the Asia and Pacific region after 40 years

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Posted 41 minutes agoSun 28 Sep 2014, 7:12pm

  Photo: Australia Network had a potential audience of 144 million people, the ABC said. (ABC News)
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The Australia Network goes off the air from today after the Federal Government withdrew funding for the broadcaster earlier this year.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade cut Australia’s international television service, which had broadcast content to 46 countries in the Asia and Pacific region including Solomon Islands, India, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, in the May budget.

The ABC was one year in to a ten-year contract to provide the service, which had a potential audience of 144 million people.

Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop told ABC’s Insiders this morning that the Government cut funding to the broadcaster because it did not believe it was meeting its contractual obligations.

However, an ABC spokesman said the number of viewers in the region had grown over the past 12 months.

“Australia Network met all of its contractual obligations and key performance indicators as set out in its contract with DFAT,” he said in a statement.

“During the first twelve months of the contract the network grew to with a potential an audience of 144 million in the Asia and Pacific region.

Australia Plus will also ensure big events from Australia including the Melbourne Cup, Sydney’s New Year’s Eve Fireworks and the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race air in the region.

ABC could continue to deliver Australia Network: Bishop

Ms Bishop said the ABC’s failure to meet its obligations and the “corrupted tender process” which delivered the national broadcaster the contract had convinced the Government there were “much more creative” ways to promote Australia abroad.

$40 million to Cambodia on the condition they take our unwanted refugees is Bishop’s sub text for “much more creative” ways.

“So I’m looking at other alternatives where I think we can do it in a much more creative and positive way.”

“My question is whether under a soft power diplomacy contract… is that the best use of taxpayers money to project a positive image into the region?” she said.

What she failed to disclose that that the ABC delivered local news for the past 40 years to the small Pacific Nations it’s withdrawl due to the cuts has handed broadcasting to the Chinese. So much for the pivot of Asia and the delivery of “soft power diplomacy”

The Government will also save $43.5 million over four years from cuts to the base funding of the ABC and SBS.