Australian Greens Peace & Disarmament spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John said today that the scope of the Office of the\u00a0Special Investigator’s remit must be broad so that it can examine the conduct of all levels of command within the SAS and ADF, not just individuals mentioned in the Brereton Inquiry Report.
\n“The Office of the Special Investigator\u00a0and their investigations must be completely independent,\u00a0operate with full transparency and have the powers to examine all levels of command.\u00a0It is unacceptable for this critical investigation to be led by an individual with professional or personal ties to the ADF,” Steele-John.
\n“With everything we’ve heard today from the Prime Minister, and from Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation case against the Nine Newspapers, it is abundantly clear that there are significant cultural problems within the SAS that must be addressed.
\n“It is alleged on the public record\u00a0that innocent people have lost their lives at the hands of Australian soldiers; the individuals responsible must lose more than just their medals and the Australian people must know to what extent those allegations are true.
\n“But, this is clearly not just a couple of\u00a0isolated incidents, within a single\u00a0SAS unit by a couple of rogue soldiers; these\u00a0alleged incidents are the symptom of\u00a0a much deeper\u00a0cultural problem within the SAS.
\n“The Brereton Inquiry Report must be made public in full and\u00a0not redacted to within an inch of being read by the public in any meaningful way.\u00a0Australians deserve to know the truth.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Australian Greens Peace & Disarmament spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John said today that the scope of the Office of the\u00a0Special Investigator’s remit must be broad so that it can examine the conduct of all levels of command within the SAS and ADF, not just individuals mentioned in the Brereton Inquiry Report. “The Office of the Special … Continue reading “CULTURAL PROBLEMS IN THE SAS MUST BE ADDRESSED”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}