Crossbenchers and Bridget Archer call for David McBride to be pardoned.
A group of 29 federal crossbenchers and Tasmanian Liberal MP Bridget Archer have written a letter to the Albanese government calling for it to request a full #pardon for jailed military lawyer #DavidMcBride.
On Tuesday, McBride was sentenced to prison for five years and eight months for taking classified defence documents about the war in Afghanistan from his former employer, the Australian defence force, and leaking them to ABC journalists.
The documents formed the basis for the ABC investigative series, The Afghan Files, which revealed #warcrimes committed by Australian soldiers. McBride will serve at least two years and three months in a Canberra jail as part of his non-parole period.
The letter, sent on Thursday, urges the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, and the attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, to advise the governor-general to grant McBride a full pardon to “end this injustice”.
“In 2020, prime minister, you told media outlet Crikey, in relation to the Collaery prosecution, ‘the idea that there should be a prosecution of a whistleblower, for what’s a shameful part of Australia’s history, is simply wrong’. It is equally shameful that the first person imprisoned in relation to Australia’s war crimes in Afghanistan is not a war criminal but the source of the Afghan Files reporting, journalism that was undeniably in the public interest.”
The letter also calls for the prosecution of former tax employee, #RichardBoyle, to end. Boyle spoke out internally, then to an independent watchdog and then to the media in 2018 about the Australian Taxation Office’s aggressive pursuit of tax debts from small businesses, which he said was destroying lives and causing unnecessary trauma to help the agency meet revenue goals.
Boyle is awaiting an appeal decision about whether he can use federal #whistleblower protection laws to gain immunity from his charges.
The group is also calling for Labor to commit to overhauling #whistleblowing laws this term, including work to establish a whistleblower #protection commission by next year. #auspol
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impératif de signaler toute situation pouvant constituer une menace pour la sécurité physique ou morale d’un #enfant auprès des délégués à la #protection de l’enfance, appelant, à cet égard, à contacter le numéro vert 1809 et 1899 ou directement les bureaux régionaux des délégués.
Jared #Kushner Has Big Plans for Delta of Europe’s Last Wild River - https://e360.yale.edu/features/jared-kushner-albania-vjose-vjosa-river-hotel " #Albania’s Vjosë River is known as Europe’s last wild river, and its pristine delta is a haven for migratory birds. As plans for luxury developments there — spearheaded by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner — move ahead, conservationists are sounding the alarm." appalling, destructive greed
@glynmoody It stinks very much of corruption in the Albanian government.
At least this lets hope: " #PPNEA and #EuroNatur are among several conservation groups taking the government to court over the issue."
And as Albania wants to become a member of the EU, pressure by EU-states and @EU_Commission could possibly help, too.
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#NorthernTerritory (NT) waters make up the last global stronghold for endangered #sawfish and one of the world's rarest shark species, the #RiverShark. Four of the world's five sawfish species and two of the world's five river shark species call NT waters home.
Right now, sawfish and river sharks are not protected from commercial #gillnets in their #CriticalHabitat along the coastlines of major river systems in the NT.
yet up to 1km of #gillnets can be used by a single commercial #barramundi fisher at the mouth of the Roper River every single day for eight months each year.
The NT Government's new plan to protect endangered sawfish and rare river sharks from the commercial #BarramundiFishery is fundamentally flawed. There was no opportunity for the public to have their say in their #protection, despite the NT Government's assurance otherwise.
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FTC head Lina Khan is fighting for an anti-monopoly America
Charged with enforcing #antitrust law and promoting #consumer#protection, the #FTC is nominally the regulator charged with stopping deals that will harm consumers.
But under successive administrations – Republican and Democratic – some critics charge the FTC stood by as industry after industry consolidated power in the hands of fewer and fewer companies.
All that changed under Joe #Biden, who has consistently attacked the monopolization of US business.
#Lina#Khan is his most high-profile warrior.
She has redefined the battlefield in such a sweeping manner that some argue there is no going back no matter who wins 2024’s election.
But tough talk is just that – talk. Drawing a line under an era of light-touch antitrust enforcement has proven easier said than done.
Last week the FTC sued to block #Kroger’s $24.6bn takeover of rival grocer #Albertsons.
If approved, the agency warned, the U.S.’s largest-ever supermarket merger would raise prices for millions of shoppers.
Kroger and Albertsons would collectively have over 5,000 stores and 700,000 employees across 48 states, according to the FTC, which claimed an executive involved in the deal had conceded it was “basically creating a monopoly”.
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