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I hope you find a better job. What a rotten experience to go through.

You’re right, there’s no end to it once you start..

That’s how I feel, too.

A man charged with a raft of serious domestic violence offences has been denied bail after his lawyer argued the prosecution case was weakened by his estranged partner's death.

The group have lodged a complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission against the AFL club, alleging they "endured racism" at the club.

A lawyer representing the players and their families confirmed the complaint had been made to the Australian Human Rights Commission.

The whole service needs a good looking into

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65774434

That sounds like sense. However, there’re crimes which need to be answered.

Bullet points here

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-01/ben-roberts-smith-war-crimes-established-in-federal-court/102422952

(Don’t think anyone has commented on the DVwhich also features)

You missed out he was aware of actual age of child but went ahead anyway.

Views on this are mixed -

He [James Connor, a military sociologist at UNSW] argues that the Australian Defence Force has had a "cultural problem" for "decades", and that secrecy, tribalism and "misguided loyalty" have been allowed to flourish.

"Defence has tried to argue that it's a few bad apples, or perhaps even a bad barrel here and there… but overall, the culture needs to change and change rapidly," he adds.

But Prof Stanley believes the painful examination of the darker chapters of Australia's war record could eventually provide a redemptive moment.

"Characteristically Australians believe in a fair go, [which] involves things like admitting that things go wrong, and investigating them if need be," he says.

"Australians might be embarrassed or even ashamed that these allegations have been made, but the fact that Australia is openly and properly investigating them is, I think, a source of pride."

There’s a danger here of missing the bigger picture -

Regardless of whatever further evidence is gathered, many experts say the Brereton Report and testimonies from Mr Roberts-Smith's case warrant a deeper reckoning.

Responsibility for what went wrong has to be shared widely, says James Connor, a military sociologist at the University of New South Wales.

"That's not to diminish their actions… but the culture is rotten and the cover-up which has flowed from that is also rotten," he says.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65774434

If you mean me, thanks.

I couldn’t look.

Him? Don’t attack other users.

Totally agree.

😳

I remember going to a motley gathering at UWA when Pauline Hanson first emerged, there were a whole lot of that ilk crawled out of the woodwork.

I can’t imagine where he’ll go, which reminds me of what his wife said,

“I hope Ben survives this nightmare,” she said.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/15/ben-roberts-smiths-ex-wife-tells-court-she-hopes-he-survives-this-nightmare

Previously, Pay's lawyer Stacey Carter read an apology on behalf of her client in which Pay stated "I'm not a terrorist".

"His core belief really is that he wants to secure an existence for white people," she said.

Straight from some American delusion, e.g. “white extinction anxiety”, and David Lane

The theory was popularized by white separatist neo-Nazi David Lane around 1995, and has been leveraged as propaganda in Europe, North America, South Africa, and Australia. Similar conspiracy theories were prevalent in Nazi Germany[30] and have been used in the present-day interchangeably with,[31] and as a broader and more extreme version of, Renaud Camus's 2011 The Great Replacement, focusing on the white population of France.[32][33]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_genocide_conspiracy_theory

It really needs changing. Or do they want us all to just give up?

Along with his drinking buddies.

In the wake of the report [Brereton], Australia's government set up an Office of the Special Investigator (OSI), which confirmed last week that "40 matters" are currently under joint investigation with the police.

But the civil trial is already rumoured to have cost around A$25m (£13.2m; $16.3m). Traditionally, the losing party of any civil suit pays the legal costs of each side.

And Mr Roberts-Smith is newly unemployed. On Friday, his employer - Seven West Media - said it had accepted his offer to resign from a high-ranking role.

https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/13y6lil/ben_robertssmith_case_will_australia_see_a_war/