DFAT's Marc Innes-Brown in contempt of Australian Senate for misleading on UNRWA
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Marc Innes-Brown, Assistant Secretary at Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, misleads the Senate with a series of false assertions about UN Watch. Contrary to what he told the Senate, numerous of the leaders and members of the UNRWA Gaza Telegram chat group were employees of UNRWA. See: unwatch.org/un...
Innes-Brown also created a straw man by falsely implying that UN Watch's report was "promoted with a picture" of 3,000 people dancing in the street. UN Watch never used any such photo. Yet he concludes his harangue by saying, "so there's kind of sometimes kernels of truth in these claims, but there's often the multiples of people involved. There's often a degree of exaggeration." In fact, we made no such claim, and there was therefore no "exaggeration."
The current Labor government doesn't represent all Australians.
They are a handful of Untrustworthy Politicians easily manipulated by an Enemy and you could say their pigeons are coming home to Roost.
Only 32% even voted for them at the election.
"any"
Nor does the LNP...
No Australian Government ever has. The current bunch are just no better, or worse than any previous.
Who investigates themselves?? How can that be taken seriously?
It seems that the australian police investigate themselves. It's apparently not all that unusual. But no, not to be taken seriously.
...... might as well let all criminals investigate themselves. It's ridiculous and idiotic.
Just like the tobacco industry investigated itself…we all know how that turned out.
IDF investigates themselves, and refuses third party investigations!!!
nothing to see here folks, defiantly no war crimes committed by IDF. They've thoroughly investigated and expect us to take their word for it.
Who believes Israeli allegations? Not one shred of evidence has been provided in two months yet Western governments cut funding immediately. At least Australia only suspended $6m of additional support because we'd already paid our $40m. Now the $6m is now back on and I'd support $80m given that AIPAC has twisted the arms of US Reps and Senators to suspend their $430m of UNRWA funding until 2025, resupply Israel and threaten Palestine they'd cut their aid if any Israeli is ever charged by the ICC. Why on earth does Israel deserve any support?
The lady next to him is vigorously nodding. It’s worth watching. Two liars on the bench
Liars needs to be in jail period
She is the puppet
Their pockets would be lined with the aid money as well.
WHAT IS UNWRA 😂
MAKING HAMAS ARMY,THANKS TO UNWRA.
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@@supatipanno I don’t think DFAT pockets are lined with money, but their heads are full of ignorance and self importance. And now they are covering their backs, too. Very badly though.
When unrwa checked themselves they said it’s all good, nothing to worry about 👌👍
No they found only 15 of the 30 employees were terrorists, not the whole lot
Hear no evil say no evil and see no evil. Thank you
Why on earth does DFAT thinks it’s in their remit to defend UNRWA?!
It's to protect the government in office. Bear in mind that the bumbling senator is Labor so she let's him off the hook when someone else would have further questioned his sources of information.
So Australia has donated money to UNRWA for 73 years. Since 1951.
His punishment should be to go in person to check in on UNRWA and the UNRWA headquarters. You know, just to say hi to his friends.
The gov should be charged with supporting terrorism!
@@PennyEv4and aiding the laundering of Australian tax payer $$$
Excellent idea.
@PennyEv4 ABSOLUTELY CORRECT... however, we will never ever see 1% of our earned money back
What a liar, watch him fidget when he talks
WHAT IS UNWRA 😂
MAKING HAMAS ARMY,THANKS TO UNWRA.
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And her questions and statements where useless! They are both trying to cover up the truth,….. and responsibility for pouring millions of dollars into a so called Humanitarian fund which in reality supports and protect Hamas!!! No one trusts UNRWA ,….. the reports are NOT exaggerated,….. they are squirming and blaming Israel because of their lack of due diligence!
He's trying not to accuse anyone specific but he really wants to...
@@TheThoughtfulMinority2067 The allegations came from the Israeli government. Is that specific enough?
@@RogerRocks We all know that but he'd be jumped on if he said it!
Liars, liars.
How nice, UNRWA is investigating itself. Hope they find something 😂
Lol ,,I Saw that too, .... An this is global ....not isolated.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
There are two investigations, one internal and one independent external investigation.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 ...
@lucasreales They'll find some loose change, an emery board, dust and some crumbs. The truth? Not there.
What frustrates me is that I struggle to make ends meet because I pay my full share of tax and pay all my bills on time, and then the government doesn't have ANY problems WASTING money on GARBAGE, such AS THIS!!! But, if I didn't pay my taxes, I'd be PROSECUTED!! There seems to be SO MUCH MORE ROOM TO LOWER TAX RATES SIGNIFICANTLY IF THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT FOCUSED ON ITS OWN BACKYARD FIRST INSTEAD OF RUBBISH LIKE THIS!
WHAT IS UNWRA 😂
MAKING HAMAS ARMY,THANKS TO UNWRA.
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We have the same problem in SA, and I think this is a global problem, countries pumping money into illegitimate orgs
I agree entirely. Fix the problems at home FIRST.
Same problem in South Africa
Same problem here in the states. At least Trump cut UNRWA funding while in office, but as soon as Biden came into the white house, he reinstituted their funding and actually increased it significantly. Any politician with an IQ over 75, knew where that UNRWA money was going, straight into the hands of Hamas.
What a surprise an Australian government employee from DEFAT lying to cover his arse.
Normal .....................
100% agreed. They always try to desperately slander UN Watch. Hillel N is the best, and good always wins in the end
You guys are weird.
They provide health and education. BULLSHIT.
They also provide terrorist brainwashing classes & weapons storage
So the health and education comes from thin air? More bullshit.
exactly WHY have we been funding this all this time?
It's been a cash cow for the hamas terrorists.. Time that was stopped for good
To provide food and health care
@@carlaburgers3088food and health care? 😅😅😅 You just gobble up the lies of Muslims don't you.
UNWRA uses its funds to support and promote terrorism
@@carlaburgers3088 false, it's been used to fund education in terrorism, this has been exposed MULTIPLE times
Brown’s explicit body language gravely betrayed his lies. His covering of his mouth for no apparent reason, multiple scratching his head and face while speaking, his drifting eyes, his avoidance of eye contact, his clearly uncomfortable stance throughout the senate questioning, and his verbal insinuations against whistleblowers are all consistent with what a liar does, and he did very poorly at that in this senate questioning.
"... VERBAL INSINUATIONS AGAINST WHISTLEBLOWERS ...", LOL
DFAT asked UNWRA who asked Hamas if anything wrong was going on. They said no. Good enough for the Australian government.
I’m always amused at the official ‘nodders’.
WHAT IS UNWRA 😂
MAKING HAMAS ARMY,THANKS TO UNWRA.
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I PRAY ALL TRUTH COMES OUT !!!!!!
WHAT IS UNWRA 😂
MAKING HAMAS ARMY,THANKS TO UNWRA.
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and what then ................... smoking mirrors ................... they are very well aware of all taxpayer funded overseas projects
Amen ...
The simple truth is that Israel is either committing genocide or dancing the can-can. And I don't reckon the IDF do the can-can.
It won't, this is a kangaroo court. Asking about essentially UN watch is trying to paint a picture that isn't true. The facts speak for themselves. The UN is clearly and factually as biased and as blatant about it as your ever likely to see in any other farse
So when UNRWA investigated itself, it found that everything was sweet. Nothing to worry about.
Seems legit.
Same as when the gestabo police investiagte themselves now since they cancelled Internal Affairs
Their investigation won't be complete for weeks yet. One of their first steps will be asking for the EVIDENCE to support the ALLEGATIONS made by Israel although all the indications so far are that THERE ISN'T ANY!!!
IDF investigates themselves, and found no evidence of war crimes.
A room full of frauds.
and we pay for their every second of living
Yep, You hit the nail on the head there, bring on the Elections.
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Another example of over paid and under performing public servants. This last week of senate inquiries has really opened my eyes to how much of our hard earned taxpayers dollars goes to bureaucrats being paid well above their abilities. I was absolutely shocked to learn that some of these get paid well above $400K/YR
UNWRA is Hamas. Hamas is UNWRA.
Rubbish.
Right on! They are terrorists for sure
@@johnschroeder2046UNWRA supports and promotes terrorism
Agreed, total BS. The man on the ground running UNRWA in Gaza is a 20 year US Army veteran, does anyone seriously think he'd support Hamas aggression in any way?
@@TheThoughtfulMinority2067 it's not the noble men on the ground who are the issue- it's the NGO "help the world" CORPORATE HACKS and woke leftists and the tech billionaires like zuckerberg, musk, soros, etc.
All sorts of billionaire's special interest groups running the show and using the good men on the ground for their nefarious purposes- they spin the writing of their own good journalists on the ground... It's a NGO-fest of woke corporations GIVING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO THE ENEMY LEADERS WHO LIVE IN QATAR...
The U.N. GAVE BILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO THE HUMMUS LEADERS WHO LIVE IN QATAR RIGHT NOW!!!
The rich use their money to skew diplomacy in a pro-billionaire direction, and that includes, apparently, USING THE U.N. TO GIVE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO JIHADISTS
I've seen fish on a hook look more at ease than Mark answering those questions.
WHAT IS UNWRA 😂
MAKING HAMAS ARMY,THANKS TO UNWRA.
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This makes me furious.
Indeed. 70 years of Australian government financial support for an organisation that supports and promotes terrorism
You can tell that he is lying as you see that by his body language and his lack of confidence in the way he speaks. Also the questions are not very in-depth and do not amount to much, this so called inquiry is a waste of to time and money.
Yes, Action is needed.
Paid 6 -7 figure salary only to lie ... the are fuqing experts
He’s so afraid to name UN Watch who have been warning about UNRWA for decades!!!
Watch how he stumbles and stares as he ums and ahs through the substantial 'processes they have in place' to 'monitor UNRWA' - not mentioning a single one. He says nothing concrete or substantial about anything, except the list of employees provided to Israel annually.
Apparently UNRWA as mentioned on TV, employs 13,000 people. Who has been paying these salaries and from what funds. According to the continual reporting by the Media, the Palestinians have been living in pitiful conditions. From all the amounts of monies spent, it would be interesting to see how their plight has been improved throughout the years. Who has paid for the myriad of tunnels built? Again interesting to know. Rosa Larsen
Not 13,000, 30,000. Meanwhile, UNHCR, the agency for *all refugees in the world*, employ 19,000.
I love it how you ask the question as though it's some wise question that hints to a much larger mystery, when it's actually public knowledge
You mean that everyone knows that the taxpayers of every country have known all along that their hard-earned cash has been going to all these lofty? causes? I am not sure I now understand why they have "paused" their contributions? Rosa
@@peterlarsen1000 they paused their contributions because UNWRA has been outed as an organisation that supports and promotes terrorism
i look at these clips and there isn't one person in the "Canberra bubble" that I would trust to run straight for 100 metres
To quote legendary Australian tele-film Blue Murder, "Some of the people you're dealing with, if they told you the sun was going to come up tomorrow, you'd get a second opinion."
WHAT IS UNWRA 😂
MAKING HAMAS ARMY,THANKS TO UNWRA.
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Birds of feather flock together ........................................
This deceitful bureaucrat is probably on $800K plus bonuses per year. Sickening!
when are the criminal charges coming?
This woman Nita Green sounds like a teenager…hesitant, uncertain, confused, interjecting but in a passive, feeble voice .
I can’t believe she is a lawyer and ex Trade Unionist.
Someone get her some public speaking skills PLEASE.
These are scripted questions, there is a specific agenda, if you read the title to this post, you will see that the
claim made as to Mr. Innis- Brown , is not relative to the proceeding, the claim made here is by the provider of
this post.
Senator Green, was seeking to corner answers that fit the agenda, not what is happening on the ground as
far as the claims referred to UNWRA.
UNWRA, is a victim of war, any clear or reasonable investigation in a hostile environment of claim, counter claim,
and propaganda, is not practical, nor is it effective, as was stated the aim is to remove UNWRA, as it is seen as
an impediment to the goals and objectives of the current campaign.
Senator Green , does not have the ability to challenge the legitimacy Mr. Innis- Brown , whose conduct and professionalism, was displayed as the experienced DFAT Bureaucrat.
She’s useless.
She’s a slob, presents unprofessionally,has poor diction and vocal fry, and is simply reading out questions her staffers have written for her.
The ALP boasts having lots of women in Parliament, but most of them are utterly useless.
All I hear is that UNRWA was asked to investigate itself, and report back. No independent effort was done to investigate UNRWA by Australia.
Lol, he responds with double talk.
This clip of Marc Innes-Brown & his page-turning side kick is a prime study for body language experts. Talk about GLOW IN THE DARK practice of deception! No actor awards here, they both need to be kicked out for poor performance.
Sadly the Question is, Who Doesn't Lie in this Government ?
We are in serious trouble here in Australia and its coming from within.
We are sitting ducks.
How much money has UNRWA received in the last decade? Where is the money? Why are the citizens of Gaza still poor "refugees" and without infrastructure? Why didn't UNRWA report from the field that Hamas was stealing materials donated to the infrastructure? Why were UNRA study booklets found that teach murder and hatred of Jews? At whose expense were these booklets printed, illustrated, and prepared? Who is responsible for the study material that UNRA works with? Who is responsible for the UNRA employees in Gaza and the supervision of the finances? Why were many of the UNRA employees found to be supporters of terrorism according to their personal WhatsApp messages? Where did the recruitment of UNRA employees come from?
So many questions so few "answers" if you can call them answers.
What in heaven's name is the politician trying to do and why isn't she pulling up the DFAT bloke on his evasive waffle? What a charade!
He is very nervoues and harslygetting out the right words
I couldn't extract a single coherent line of thought from this person testifying. Was he representing people with communication challenges? What point was he trying to make? Are the sounds "aah", "emmm"," or "errr" a form of local Aussie coloqueolisms? Any help would be greatly appreciated. 😂
It’s known as the Pinocchio dialect.
They knew exactly where the money was going.
“Umm umm umm” the short version of his evidence
Sounds like many deals been made around UNRWA...wonder why?
What is the point of UNWRA doing an internal investigation?
UNWRA perpetuates dependency on itself, rather than enabling Palestinians to deal with developing self sufficiency. Why bother providing health care education and food for yourself when the UN does it for free?
No actions made. They werel like smokes dissapeared in the air.
stop funding
wow why are we paying them anything....?...stuffem
She is so soft on him.. incredible
I note with bemusement at how these oxygen thieves keep turning the pages of their voluminous folios and when asked questions need to take on notice pertinant questions asked that should be in their purview.
Amazing isn't it!
This snippet of Marc Innes-Brown & his page-turning side kick is a prime study for body language experts
Talk about GLOW IN THE DARK practice of deception! No actor awards here, they need to be kicked out for poor performance
A veery smooth and polished cover up! Should have to face a well informed critic in public.
We would not have a clue as to where our aid money ends up.
Just defund.
He didn’t answer which specific organizations, supposedly targeted UNRWA unfairly.
If UNRA hasn't sorted this out in the time they have been in operation, what is the point of UNRA. the UN has another agenda here, and it's not to help the Palestinian people. why is the Australia government perpetuating the misery of the Palestinian people buy support to UNRA.
Believe what Israel says
Yer sure after all the lies that have been exposed already.
Well you certainly can't believe hamas or UNRWA.. Isreal will sort it out
For a person earning a medium to high 6 figure salary, he sure says um, Urrrm, Uuh, rather too frequently. But that's probably just me,,,,,,
Marc's secretary, "Hey Marc, we have that hearing about UNRWA in 30 minutes"... Marc caught with his pants around his legs "Umm, what is UMRA?"
NGO's, Amnesty and many others have been raising allegations of UNRWA for over a decade. The problem is not necessarily each individual event, its the totality that points towards systemic failures of governance. UN has many other agencies that already perform similar functions across the globe and are quite capable of delivering this aid, UNRWA is not required.
This guy is not being open. DFAT typically includes relatives and close associates of proscribed persons on their lists, the total number of persons mentioned in the letter celebrating Oct 7 may not be UNRWA employees but could be relatives and close associated of UNRWA employees. He is avoiding the issue here.
One organization with 1 billion dollars in funding for 5,6 million people, 80.000 employees of which 13.000 in Gz, 10 offices worldwide.
UNHCR, 18.000 employees working in 137 countries for 89 million refugees, 10 billion dollars in funding.
This should have raised alarm bells from the start. Just saying.
obviously he is not including family and friends of unwra employees. so he is being dishonest
I must’ve watched the wrong feed since I missed the contempt bit.
Everything he said was a lie so that would be contempt.
Um er um,can we have an um tax in parliament
Labor and Liberal, and the other parties continue to mislead parliament, but are not held accountable, so again one rule for them and another for the rest
What’s even more revolting about the Hamas loving foreign ministry official Innes Brown is that he is paid $237,000 a year with a $147,000 a year pension for the rest of his life
take these issues seriously .oh gee thats reassuring .Another weasel on the gravy train
How does a UN body conduct its own investigation? It's ridiculous. Give it to 3rd parties with open door policies.
The queens act 1973 and the Australia seal act. Seem to suggest we are under forgein rule...? 🤔
Well done UN WATCH! Keep up the great work!
They investigated themselves and found they did nothing wrong. What a surprise.
Typical lazy bureaucrat caught with his pants down around his ankles. All he can do is slide blame onto his perceived enemy, those who are holding the spotlight on him.
Another clear case of failure to undertake due diligence.
LIARS
A very weak examination of this official by an obviously weak senator clearly not up to the task. What about the fact that Amas used UNRWA facilities to access terror tunnels.
Where's is wong.
The contemptuous Wong is sitting to the side.. poor thing she had to go to work. This woman asking the questions needs to stop being so apologetic.
Contradicting statement he says these assistane is for only the palestine group but it is really for muslims around the world correct? Yes. So stop these misinformation please australia you have been watch by the world.thank you. Read between the line then you will catch them lying.
No, it's not! It is Only for Palestinians. And not direct refugees, but their kids and grandkids too. Even if they have long left the region, for the statistics, they are still refugees. That's how from 700K in 1948 they now report 5.6 million!! It doesn't even make sense, how is it possible...?
@annettep3352 how is it possible? You may ask the Palestine military which is the Muslim hamas terror group. Thank you
So they funding an organisation not knowing that the services haven't been provided to terrorist since the terrorist group is in control over thoughs regions including some have been caught working for theses organisations that countries like Australia has provided aid to
In one way this public servant was actually refreshing. Despite providing what seemed to be agenda driven and misleading answers he did, at least, answer the questions. He did not falsely claim to either not know the answers or constantly take the question on notice and say "I will get back to you on that Senator" which most of his inept, highly paid, public service counterparts seem to use as their stock answer to everything.
A lie is like cow poo. You can try cover it up, but you can still smell the bullsht.
Why is Australian tax payers money, being sent overseas ????
HOW on earth did this bloke get a job in foreign affairs , the tax payers have been feeding this lot since 1951 , so where do you think the money is going ?
Exactly!!! He is the worst
Marc Innes-Brown is not what a Senator should be.
This is quite painful to watch. The bias of Innes-Brown for a corrupt UN agency is very disturbing. Australia has contributed already too much over the decades and needs to stop...intergenerational refugee status is a ridiculous concept and only keeps milking the cash cow.
Good to see Australian politicians failing on so many levels. Wong in action is a disaster
He didn't seem to know about the recent allegations at first, however ... there was only half a person involved ... yes a bit blurred
If Aust continues to fund UNRWA after this debacle, we are finished as a truth-seeking nation of goodwill. If the world continues to fund UNRWA after this debacle we will need to accept that Islamic terrorism has won the day & accept our fate & the fate of our children & grandchildren.
So as an Australian how do you get recompense from government for negligence & discrimination, malfeasance? Incompetence?
Or we only support Palestinians in another country?
I congratulate DFAT for investigating the facts on the ground to determine the TRUTH and having the courage report it to our government AND the Australian people Truthfully. It now remains to see if the government have the courage to reinstate aid.
On current form I'm predicting that they won't for fear of being called antistatic.
DEFUND UNRWA over 80 years teaching Palestinian to produce begging bowls. No other nation has been refugees living off handouts for so long.Enough of this playing refugees must end immediately
Why is so much of our money leaving our shores like this I’m an Aussie veteran and our money should go to our citizens not foreigners
What a contemptible guy, evasive, speaks in platitudes, actually says nothing, totally fact free.
UNRWA is Hamas and Hamas are UNRWA! Since 2006.
What was he's findings in the discovery of a tunnel under the office and weapons upstairs ??
Australia has been contributing to UNWRA as a refugee support organization since 1951? When does refugee status end in the real world?
Allegations against UNRWA so serious that they got UNRWA to investigate?! And that Innes-brown character, his body language! He tries so hard to look casually dismissive, while he gives it away by squirming like a toad. Despicable liar!
GUTERREZ, UNRWA, LAZZARINNI, ALBANESE and my latest addition Martin Griffiths must be on the pay of Iran or Hamas, don't you think?
This guy is a disgrace why is he still employed by our tax $$
From evidence we have seen on social media and multiple news outlets, this Innis guy appears to be telling untruths.
Gee how nice of our Government(s) both Labor & liberal to have been giving money to such lovely, law abiding civilised countries such as Syria, Lebanon, Jordan & the West Bank & Gaza Strip areas.