Dan Fortune
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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I'm not going to walk away from trying to do the right thing in a virtuous sense to bring a fair go to people.
Australia's built its sense of how it is in the world in doing that.
Going to people who can't stand up to oppression and give them a fair go.
But that's not what we were doing in Afghanistan in 2012.
and the pathway into the denigration of our national mission and the compromise of those values.
That's when the senior leadership had been accountable.
But there's issues around boilerplate reporting.
You give the cheerleading accounting.
The senior leadership weren't raising these difficult threshold conversations to the politicians.
Well, these are the questions we should ask.
I'm of the view...
and if you've got my insights, that sort of advice should have been presented to the minister.
When was it presented?
And if it wasn't, that's the failure of senior leadership.
And we can identify that.
When did this cultural deviation occur?
When did the wheels fall off the SAS, SOTG, the Army's commitment in Afghanistan?
At what point was the government advised
The dismission, the ethical dilemmas, the partner force behaviour, the integrity of our moral standing in the coalition, at what point was that raised to the government?
And that's the senior general's job.
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