Quote: [quote]THIRTY QUESTIONS CANBERRA WILL NEVER ANSWER
1. Why did Justice & Customs Minister Christopher Ellison withhold the information provided to him by the CEO of Sydney Airport Corporation Ltd, Max Moore-Wilton, specifically that Schapelle Corby's boogie-board bag was the only one not scanned at Sydney Airport? Given that this confirmed that it was diverted past the scanner by baggage staff, why didn’t he inform Schapelle Corby’s lawyer, when asked directly about scanning, just a couple of days after he had discovered this?
[Ref: Transit Report]
2. Why was this information also hidden from Parliament, when direct questions were asked, and critically, from the Bali court? Why did Prime Minister John Howard, who was also aware, remain silent throughout?
[Ref: Transit Report]
3. Why did AFP Commissioner Michael Keelty remain silent, particularly given that the AFP’s own Operation Mocha had already discovered that exactly the same baggage handlers were simultaneously engaging in other drug related activities at the airport?
[Ref: Transit Report, Case Exhibit]
4. Why was Schapelle Corby’s luggage 5kg overweight on the Qantas system (which would carry an excess charge of $175), when she checked them in underweight (with no excess charge)?
[Ref: Transit Report]
5. Why wasn’t Schapelle Corby, or the Bali court, ever told about the addition of this weight, after the bags left her hands, particularly given that it broadly equated to the weight of the marijuana?
[Ref: Supplementary Report]
6. Why did AFP Commissioner Keelty tell the media, just two weeks before the verdict, that there was no evidence of airport drug syndicates using innocent passengers, when this was clearly, demonstrably, and utterly, false? Why didn’t the AFP admit that it had held the Kessing Reports for months, and why did it withhold a host of other vital support evidence, which proved the long-term and systemic nature of such syndication at Sydney Airport? Why wasn’t Keelty disciplined or reprimanded for this intervention, even after the Law Council of Australia pointed out that it would have constituted contempt of court had the trial been held within Australian jurisdiction?
[Ref: Transit Report, Law Council Statement]
7. Why did the AFP and DFAT evade and frustrate the forensic and DNA tests which Schapelle Corby repeatedly begged for in court?
[Ref: Mutual Evasion Report]
8. Why did the AFP tell Parliament that it couldn't perform marijuana pollen tests, when it had the capacity to do so, and indeed, when it had originally offered to perform them for the INP? Why did it refuse the services of a qualified forensics expert, who had volunteered to perform them?
[Ref: Mutual Evasion Report]
9. Why did Ellison subsequently tell a completely false story about marijuana testing, in a written letter to a constituent?
[Ref: Mutual Evasion Report, Formal Complaint]
10. Why didn’t DFAT invoke the MACMA Treaty to obtain the chain-of-custody sample of marijuana (for DNA testing), which Schapelle Corby formally requested, when it could have done so within the provisions of the treaty itself?
[Ref: Mutual Evasion Report]
11. Why did the AFP and Qantas provided contradictory stories about the missing CCTV footage, which Schapelle Corby and her mother pleaded for? Why was no footage ever provided, from any airport, despite over 800 cameras being in situ?
[Ref: Transit Report, CCTV Images]
12. Why did Foreign Minister Downer, and Prime Minister Howard, publicly endorse the original Bali trial, when they were well aware that a multitude of legal and human rights abuses had been committed throughout?
[Ref: Bali Trial Report, Case Exhibit]
13. Why did Ellison publicly endorse the burning of the physical evidence, whilst Schapelle Corby pleaded desperately for it to be preserved and tested?
[Ref: Mutual Evasion Report]
14. Why did DFAT ignore and suppress the diagnosed medical condition of a mentally ill Australian citizen, and thus, de facto, endorse the consequential ongoing human rights abuses inherent to her situation?
[Ref: Mental Health Report]
15. Why was ACLEI, when forced to examine the AFP's role in the affair, directly and demonstrably complicit with a serving AFP officer, in producing a report which was an embarrassment to all parties? Why was a functionary, who was at the heart of the Howard regime when the AFP abuses occurred, allowed to rubber-stamp ACLEI's bogus report?
[Ref: Whitewash Report]
16. Why did the government coerce Schapelle Corby to accept the involvement of an Australian QC, Mark Trowell, for her appeal? Why did he then decimate the appeal by attacking her Indonesian defence team to the media? Why, when he subsequently admitted that he was actually working for the government, and not for Schapelle Corby, did the government refuse to comment? Why has the precise role of Justice & Customs Minister Ellison in this affair, Trowell’s long term friend, never been explained?
[Ref: Insider Report]
17. Why did Downer and Howard publicly describe a routine flour hoax at the Indonesian embassy as a “murderous attack”, using a “biological agent”, when there was no evidence whatsoever to suggest that it wasn’t benign? Why did neither of them reveal that the note included with the flour didn't refer to Schapelle Corby at all, and was written in Bahasa, when they promptly blamed it on her supporters? Why didn’t they reveal the actual contents of the note when subsequently asked?
[Ref: PowderGate Report]