Jacqui Lambie has revealed she has referred Australia’s top military brass to the International Criminal Court to investigate their “criminal liability” in alleged war crimes during an emotional statement to the Senate.
In an emotionally charged statement to the Senate, the former military officer condemned the “culture of coverup at the highest levels” of the country’s military.
“This asked him to look at Australia’s higher commanders through the lens of command responsibility,” Senator Lambie said on Tuesday. “Australia has in fact set up two systems of criminality, one for Australia’s top military commanders and another for commanders from the rest of the world.During her impassioned plea for the new Labor government to take action, Senator Lambie cited evidence from “multiple sources” outside of the Brereton inquiry including from the recent defamation case of Ben Roberts-Smith in which these sources claimed “the leadership knew”.
She demanded the government allow her to “table these god damn documents” in reference to hundreds of pages of supposed allegations. “Even though we can’t support the suspension right here, I place it on the record that we’ll engage with Senator Lambie now that we’ve received those documents,” Senator McKim said.
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