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> On the 25 March 2002 the Senate Select Committee on a certain Maritime Incident
began hearings in Parliament. The report on "A Certain Maritime Incident" was delivered on 23 October 2002.
The Senate Committee is no longer in existence. Transcripts, attendance lists, the enquiry's terms of reference,
as well as a list of submissions, are available online
at the Australian Parliament's website.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, 18.04.2002, p.5
"...In a day of damaging evidence for the Government, the information trail edged closer to the Prime Minister, John Howard."
The office of former defence minister Peter Reith, told government photographers not to take or circulate "humanising" pictures of asylum seekers during last year's election campaign..."
"...a senior public servant revealed that the demand was made by Mr Reith's former press secretary, Ross Hampton..."
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> What happened when? Read the chronology of the children overboard
affair, from what actually happened on October 7, right up to the
latest revelations about how truth was sacrificed for political
expediency. more...
> Explosive evidence, direct from the HMAS Adelaide,
that no children were thrown overboard on October 10. Read the actual
restricted ship's cable! more...
> See the photos that prove the cover-up, and read the confidential
government reports for yourself. more...
> New: full Defence report online
- the one that doesn't mention Reith's phone call with the
Chief of the Defence Force just before the election.
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Source: The Australian, 28.02.2002,
p. 10
" A flustered Admiral Barrie wouldn't own up yesterday to
being a dill; however his actions speak for themselves. But while
he has been clumsy, inept and erratic, at least he has come clean
in the end. This is more than can be said for the Government..."
"...A week ago Howard said Barrie's testimony "absolutely
closes the circle". Why won't he now admit the circle is well
and truly reopened? This Government can't handle the truth."
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Source: The Age 21.02.02. p.1
All Australian newspapers on Thursday 21 February 2002 reported
the dramatic revelations of the previous night’s Senate estimates
committee hearing.
The articles below are representative of that evidence. Once transcripts
of these proceedings are available, www.truthoverboard.com will
publish them. It is worth taking note of the last sentence in the
first excerpt where Defence Minister Senator Robert Hill, one of
John Howard’s closest friends, accuses the high-ranking ADF
officer answering the questions posed by the Senate Committee of
“denying Mr Reith (the former Defence Minister) natural justice”!
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