After 13 torturous years Schapelle Corby finally returned home to Australia. Although she is now free, justice remains un-served and the culpable remain unaccountable and unpunished. Their legacy is the promulgation of a culture in which iniquity and prejudice thrives, and the innocent are expendable to the whims of the powerful and privileged.
This case reveals what happens when an individual's human rights conflict with the flagrant self-interest of malfeasant politicians. It exposes the consequences of allowing the corrupt to wallow under the protective failings of a squalid and insular media.
The existence of this website proves that, against this type of background, the acquisition of conclusive evidential proof is not sufficient. The data obtained and published by The Expendable Project has been censored, maligned and misrepresented by a media which has invested exclusively in fictitious trivia and false conspiracy theories, whilst pandering to the worst instincts of a largely inured population.
Throughout, the establishment, inclusive of the judiciary, had no stomach for the implications of what was revealed by this material. The closed ranks embraced not only subsequent generations of politicians, but a range of institutions and organs of state. Cultural prejudice and social entrenchment also ensured that those parties masquerading as the purveyors of civil and human rights remained silent and acquiescent.
Whilst this case is unique in some respects, common strands pervade many others. Indeed, during its investigation The Expendable Project was furnished with evidence relating to a number of them. Direct approaches to Australian authorities, and offers to forward the information, were simply ignored.
This is Australia's dirty little secret. It remains an unambiguous and ongoing measure of its diminished moral standing and lost integrity.
The Expendable Project remains the most extensive FOI based investigation in the history of Australian journalism.
THE DOCUMENTARY: EXPENDABLE
EVIDENTIAL PROOF OF EVERY ABUSE DOCUMENTED IN THIS FILM IS AVAILABLE IN THE REPORT AND EXHIBIT SECTIONS
[Preleude & Politics] [The AFP] [The ABC] [The Organs Of State] [Epilogue]
How a government wilfully withheld vital evidence from a court of law, deceived its public, orchestrated an unprecedented media campaign, and ruthlessly deployed its organs of state against one of its own citizens.
This is a frightening but entirely true narrative; a grotesque political horror story which is still unfolding today. It exposes what happens when an individual’s human rights conflict with strategic political need. It reveals the ruthless use of a government’s organs of state, and a regime of unprecedented opinion management, against a single working class woman and her desperate family.
It presents, and demonstrates, the crushing, pre-meditated, and often brutal acts which a western government is prepared to inflict upon a helpless citizen, in pursuit of political expediency.
| The Transit Report Cables and correspondence: by their own hands | The Mutual Evasion Report Duplicity, evasion and gross misrepresentation | Supplementary Report Equivocation, withholding, and evasion of responsibility |
| The Insider Report The Australian decimation of Schapelle Corby's appeal | The PowderGate Report Exploitation, misinformation and manipulation of perception | The Political Seizure Report Appeal sabotage, abuse endorsement, and extortion |
| The FOI Abuse Report Complicity, cover up, and abuse of legal rights | The DFAT Network Report Hostile propaganda, lobbying, and misinformation | Opinion Management Report Propaganda and the management of public opinion |
| The Primary Smear Report Smears, fabrication and hostile propaganda | The Prison Abuse Report Human rights abuse, intimidation, discrimination | The Mental Illness Report The Deterioration & Abuse Of Schapelle Corby |
| Case Exhibits Government Cables, Correspondence & Documents | The Whitewash Report The Cover-Up Of The AFP's Political Role & Corruption | The Absence Of Motive The absence of any financial benefit of smuggling to Bali |
| The Quango Report Cover-up, complicity & the sanctioning of abuse | The Show Trial Report Legal and human rights abuses at the Bali trial | Media Abuse: Examples Opinion management, fabrication, & censorship |
| The Allan Kessing Interview Airport criminality and the political cover up | The William Moss Interview Withholding of evidence, complicity | The Col Chapman Interview Media abuse, smear and fabrication |
THE EXPENDABLE PROJECT
The Expendable Project is a global collaboration documenting and exposing the wilful political sacrifice of an innocent woman.
"Expendable presents, and demonstrates, the crushing, pre-meditated, and often brutal acts
which a government is prepared to inflict upon a helpless citizen, in pursuit of political expediency"
"You will be shocked. You will be enraged. You will weep. You will never see politicians in the same way again."
"The shaming of two nations."