NACC Commissioner Paul Brereton has given contracts to his barrister mates Matthew Vesper and Christine Ernst at the NACC via limited tenders, which has corruption written all over it, as you will see in the video below.

Paul Brereton’s jobs for the boys and girls rort should be the final nail in his career as NACC Commissioner given his history of corruptly looking after his defence force mates in the Brereton Report, the Robodebt cover-up and lying to parliament about his continued role for The Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force (IGADF). (Click here to read more) 

Paul Brereton’s scam for his mate Matthew Vesper

Paul Brereton was exposed last week, at a federal Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee hearing at parliament house, for dishing out a $67,000 NACC contract to his mate barrister Matthew Vesper.

Not only did Commissioner Paul Brereton give his mate Matthew Vesper the $67,000 NACC contract, but Commissioner Paul Brereton knowingly and deliberately concealed his true relationship with Matthew Vesper from the NACC CEO Philip Reed and NACC General Manager Legal Rebekah O’Meagher who had responsibility for organising and signing off on the deal.

Matthew Vesper’s links to Paul Brereton

NACC Commissioner Paul Brereton and Matthew Vesper worked together for 4 years from 2016 to 2020 at The Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force investigating alleged criminal conduct by Australian Special forces in Afghanistan. Paul Brereton headed up the inquiry and Matthew Vesper was “Lead counsel assisting Justice Paul Brereton” based on his resume.

Brereton also mentioned Matthew Vesper in a speech at his Farewell Ceremony in 2023 when he retired as a Supreme Court judge and said at the 1:01:58 mark “The story of the Afghanistan inquiry cannot yet be told though it must be one day. I am touched to see here so many of the team who undertook that historic work some like Captain Rennekin and Commander Vesper masquerading as barristers”

One reason people say Paul Brereton should not be the NACC Commissioner is because he is a Major General in the Army Reserve, and the NACC investigate corruption in the Defence department. Matthew Vesper is a Commander in the Navel reserve which should rule him out working for the NACC as well.

I wonder what investigation Matthew Vesper was hired by the NACC for? Into fraud at the Defence department?

The below video is self-explanatory and shows Senator David Shoebridge asking NACC CEO Philip Reed and NACC General Manager Legal Rebekah O’Meagher questions about Paul Brereton, his mate Matthew Vesper and the $67,000 tender scam. (Click here to see the tender document. It was $71,798 – $4,600 which equals $67,198 and ran from May 2024 to June 2025)

When watching the below video keep this in mind, the NACC on the 30th of June 2025, published one of its few findings, Operation Kingscliff, finding corrupt conduct by a Senior Executive Service officer in the Department of Home Affairs (Home Affairs) on multiple occasions. 

“The Commission found the official had engaged in corrupt conduct by abusing her office to give her sister and her sister’s fiancé an improper benefit, and by misusing official information.”

A key element of the investigation was the transfer of the sister’s fiancé to Home Affairs under section 26 of the Public Service Act 1999.

The official’s involvement in the transfer included her promoting her sister’s fiancé as a candidate for a position in Home Affairs, praising him to colleagues, creating the job requisition, approving it herself and forging a witness signature on paperwork to fast-track onboarding, all the while deliberately concealing the family relationship from others. At no point did she disclose the relationship. (Click here to read more)

The Operation Kingscliff findings, as per above, sound a lot like the corrupt conduct Paul Brereton committed helping his mate Matthew Vesper, as outlined in the below video.

I published the full NACC hearing from last Tuesday (7/10/25) on the Kangaroo Court of Australia YouTube channel. (Click here to watch) 

Paul Brereton’s scam for his mate Christine Ernst

After the NACC hearing last week, where Senator David Shoebridge exposed the Paul Brereton – Matthew Vesper tender scam, I started to have a closer look, and I came across a limited tender for Christine Ernst valued at a lazy $29,425 which was amended by $1,500 which I assume means it was reduced to $27,925.

The tender dates say it runs from the 14th of August 2025 until the 30th of November 2025 (Click here to see Christine Ernst’s tender document)

In 2023 Christine Ernst represented the Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force (IGADF) in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal against Ben Roberts-Smith, who was after Paul Brereton’s diary notes, 

The Guardian reported in April 2023:

Ben Roberts-Smith has launched a last-ditch effort to access three diary entries of Maj Gen Paul Brereton, the officer who wrote the Afghanistan Inquiry Report into alleged war crimes committed by Australian special forces troops.

In a parallel court action to the defamation case, the former Victoria Cross recipient Roberts-Smith has brought against three Australian newspapers, the former SAS corporal has pursued a five-year freedom of information application seeking access to three entries from Brereton’s diary during the course of his Afghanistan investigation.

and:

Christine Ernst, acting for the Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force (IGADF), rejected Roberts-Smith’s submissions, saying the identity of the person Brereton met remained confidential.

Disclosure of that person’s name could also prevent others coming forward to assist in future inquiries, she told the tribunal. (Click here to read more)

While Christine Ernst was paid by the IGADF she was in effect also representing Paul Brereton which raises many questions for Christine Ernst’s NACC tender, just like Matthew Vesper’s NACC tender.

Did Paul Brereton direct NACC staff to hire Christine Ernst the same as Brereton in effect directed staff to hire Matthew Vesper? Did Brereton declare his relationship with Christine Ernst?

Christine Ernst is garden-variety barrister of which there are thousands in Australia. Why was Christine Ernst the only one invited to tender for the $29,425 contract?

What is Christine Ernst’s special skill set that makes her the only one who could do the NACC job? Base on the video above the only skill set required is being mates with Paul Brereton.

Given NACC General Manager Legal Rebekah O’Meagher said in the above video that the Matthew Vesper tender was the first time the NACC had employed outside counsel, was the Christine Ernst tender the second time the NACC had employed outside counsel?

How many other NACC tender winners are friends with NACC Commissioner Paul Brereton?

You can make a complaint about NACC Commissioner Paul Brereton’s jobs for his mates scandal to the Inspector of the NACC on their website by clicking here. The more people that make a complaint the harder it is for the Inspector of the NACC to sweep the complaints under the carpet. It only takes 30 seconds and can be done anonymously.

I think if enough people drive the jobs for the boys and girls scandal then Commissioner Paul Brereton will be gone soon, given his recent rap sheet of lies and corruption.

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