National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) Commissioner Paul Brereton headed up the “Brereton Inquiry” into war crimes by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan with Brereton finding “that some responsibility for the “murder” of 39 Afghan prisoners and civilians could not fall on the most senior officers”.

The problem is that Commissioner Paul Brereton is also Major General in Australia’s Army Reserve so the “most senior officers” are Brereton’s mates and it should be no surprise that Brereton found they were not liable for the “murder” of 39 Afghan prisoners and civilians.

Brereton has been busted in his “Brereton Inquiry report” trying to protect his “senior officer” mates in the Australian Defence Force (ADF) which totally undermines Paul Brereton’s position as Commissioner of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC).

The government also set up the Afghanistan Inquiry Implementation Oversight Panel to oversee the implementation of the recommendations in the Brereton Inquiry report.

A report by the Afghanistan Inquiry Implementation Oversight Panel was only released on Thursday (16/5/24) and the ABC reported:

Afghanistan panel suggests military top brass be held ‘accountable’ for command failures over alleged war crimes

Serving and former defence chiefs, including Governor General David Hurley, are facing fresh calls to take responsibility for command failures which may have led to alleged war crimes in Afghanistan under their watch.

A report from an independent panel appointed to oversee the landmark Brereton inquiry has finally been released, warning that a lack of accountability from Australia’s military top brass has generated “anger and bitter resentment” among troops and veterans.

In 2020, a report prepared for the Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force by Justice Paul Brereton recommended 19 soldiers be investigated by police for the “murder” of 39 Afghan prisoners and civilians, and the cruel treatment of two others.

Now, the subsequent Afghanistan Inquiry Implementation Oversight Panel has rejected Justice Brereton’s conclusion that senior commanders should not be held accountable for the murders of 39 Afghans.

“The Panel did not agree with the Brereton Inquiry’s view that some accountability and responsibility could not fall on the most senior officers and it suggested that issue should be the subject of further consideration,” it said.

“There is ongoing anger and bitter resentment amongst present and former members of the special forces, many of whom served with distinction in Afghanistan, that their senior officers have not publicly accepted some responsibility for policies or decisions that contributed to the misconduct, such as the overuse of special forces.”

Members of the oversight panel, led by former inspector-general of intelligence and security Vivienne Thom, also compared the failure of senior Defence leaders to accept accountability for war crimes to company bosses who face dismissal or even criminal charges for corporate collapses.

“In the private sector, major corporate failures result in both an organisational and individual responsibility,” the report handed to the government in November 2023 states.

“Personal knowledge or direct involvement of the senior officers in the causes or behaviour that led to the corporate failure are not required.” (Click here to read more) (Click here: for a full copy of the Afghanistan Inquiry Implementation Oversight Panel report)

For example, if an employee dies working for a company in breach of Workplace Health and Safety laws on a construction site, the directors can be found liable and jailed and fined, which Paul Brereton would know because he is also a former judge of the Supreme Court of NSW.

So, why did Paul Brereton fail to “look closely at the collective accountability and responsibility of Defence’s most senior leaders” as the Afghanistan Inquiry Implementation Oversight Panel found? Brereton was protecting his mates is the only conclusion that a “fair-minded lay observer might reasonably apprehend” and his job as NACC Commissioner is not tenable.

Pictures are worth a thousand words as per below:

Governor-General David Hurley, Paul Brereton and Kathryn Campbell (The 3 amigos) are in the picture below from 2008. The picture was published in 2016 on the Sydney University Regiment Facebook page.

The above picture (2008) depicts then Vice Chief of the Defence Force and Honorary Colonel of Sydney University Regiment, Lieutenant General David Hurley, (left, now His Excellency General The Honourable David Hurley, AC, DSC (Ret’d)) reviewed the historic ceremonial parade with (L to R) the Brigade commander Brigadier Paul Brereton (centre, now Major General The Honourable Justice Paul Brereton, AM, RFD) and the Regiment’s commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Kathryn Campbell (now Brigadier Kathryn Campbell, CSC and commander of 5th Brigade). (Click here to see on Facebook)

Paul Brereton position as NACC Commissioner is untenable

In a court of law, you do not have to prove real bias by a judge, you only have to show evidence that there is perceived bias and a judge has to recuse themselves from hearing the matter.

On the Judicial Commission of NSW website it says:

The test for determining whether a judge should disqualify himself or herself by reason of apprehended bias is the objective “double might” test: “whether a fair-minded lay observer might reasonably apprehend that the judge might not bring an impartial and unprejudiced mind to the resolution of the question the judge is required to decide (Click here to read more)

On the 23rd of July 2023 I published an article titled “Kathryn Campbell’s Robodebt lies on video and her friendship with NACC Commissioner Paul Brereton” which starts off:

Kathryn Campbell, advisor to the AUKUS program on $900,000 per year, has been suspended for her role in the fraudulent Robodebt Scheme and is possibly facing criminal charges. Most people would not know whether her suspension is justified or not but in the video below she is in full flight lying, deceiving and showing contempt for a Senate hearing into Robodebt.

What is also concerning is her friendship with National Anti-Corruption Commissioner (NACC) Paul Brereton. (Click here to read more)

On the 26th of July 2023 I published an article titled “Governor-General David Hurley, his $18 million fraud and his mate NACC Commissioner Paul Brereton” which starts off:

National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) Commissioner Paul Brereton is friends with Governor-General David Hurley and Robodebt fraudster Kathryn Campbell which creates a huge issue as corruption allegations against Hurley and Campbell have almost certainly been made to the NACC to evaluate and investigate if they think it is warranted. (Click here to read more)

I published the below video on YouTube (25/7/23) on this matter which is worth watching as I add more information:

Above, on the cover image of the video, is Paul Brereton on the far left, Governor-General David Hurley and Kathryn Campbell in the middle at the Sydney University Regiment in 2022. (Click here to see on Facebook)

Paul Brereton – NSW Supreme Court judge

Paul Brereton was sworn in as a judge of the Supreme Court of NSW on the 15th of August 2005 which means he was appointed by the Bob Carr led Labor government. Although it must be noted that Bob Carr resigned as Premier on the 3rd of August 2005 and was replaced by Morris Iemma but the decision to appoint Paul Brereton would have been made months earlier while Bob Carr was still Premier.

The point is Paul Brereton is a Labor boy which explains his appointment as NACC Commissioner.

Labor tried to appoint another Labor crony as NACC Deputy Commissioner

Not only is Paul Brereton a Labor boy but Labor was busted trying to appoint another Labor boy Stephen Rothman as a Deputy NACC Commissioner.

In February 2024 I published an article titled “Prime Minister Anthony Albanese biggest election lie. The NACC scam exposed further!” which starts off:

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese promised voters he would clean up government corruption, with a genuine National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), when he was campaigning for the 2022 federal election. But as every day goes by more evidence comes to hand that makes it clearer that was a big lie by Albanese and the Labor Party. 

The latest evidence of the big NACC lie is Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus being exposed for trying to appoint Labor Party crony Stephen Rothman, who is a NSW Supreme Court judge, as a deputy commissioner of the National Anti-Corruption Commission. (Click here to read more)

Paul Brereton and Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus

Protecting war crimes

Paul Brereton was appointed to head up the Brereton Inquiry and without a doubt they knew when he was appointed he would protect “the most senior officers” who were and still are his mates.

In December 2020, Mark Weinberg QC was appointed by the then Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton as the Special Investigator to investigate alleged war crimes by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan. Weinberg has done virtually nothing since except collect his fat pay check.

In April 2021 I published an article titled “Mark Weinberg QC the corrupt former judge appointed by Scott Morrison to cover up Australia’s alleged war crimes” which starts off:

“Mark Weinberg QC believes some people such as judges are above the law and accountability and I know this for a fact because he was filmed on video in 2017 in court saying as much as per below. He is also the person appointed by the Scott Morrison government to cover up the alleged war crimes in Afghanistan committed by Australian troops.” (Click here to read more)

Both Paul Brereton and Mark Weinberg QC have been exposed publicly for their belief that certain people are above the law and they are both up to their necks in covering up war crimes.

But Paul Brereton is Commissioner of the NACC and can someone who believes certain people are above the law continue to hold his position as Commissioner?

I’ll keep on investigating because I don’t think Paul Brereton can survive as Commissioner and if he does, he will do a lot of damage to the federal government which is their own fault for appointing him in the first place. 

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