Well Well lets see what this sonk Cornall has to say....... Considering his last enquiry was to " Fuck over" a whistleblower for the Australian Public Service and protect some Shonky Government Department Head
Manus Island enquiry will be led by Robert Cornall, says Scott Morrison
Former civil servant also investigated sex abuse claims on Manus Island in July last year
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The immigration minister, Scott Morrison, has announced that a former public servant, Robert Cornall, will conduct a review into the circumstances surrounding the Manus Island disturbances this week.
Ongoing protests had been occurring at the Manus facility, which escalated on Sunday night, leading to violence involving guards, local contractors and asylum seekers. One asylum seeker was killed during the disturbance and several were seriously injured.
Cornall was previously a secretary in the Attorney-General’s department and has conducted numerous reviews of government actions.
“This was a very serious incident and it is one that will take some time to collect information to determine the facts and get the answers we are all intent on getting,” Morrison said in a news conference on Friday afternoon.
Cornall was also brought in to undertake a review on Manus Island following claims from whistleblower Rod St George about an asylum seeker being sexually assaulted on the island in July last year. St George said he was dismayed with Cornall’s findings in the review.
Morrison also identified the name of the asylum seeker killed during the violence as Reza Berati, a 23-year-old asylum seeker from Iran. Berati had arrived in Australia on 24 July, 2013, and was sent to Manus Island.
“The family expressed their wish to have the body returned home for burial arrangements,” Morrison said.
The body was being held in the Manus Island morgue but is now being moved to Port Moresby with a Papua New Guinea police security escort for an autopsy to be conducted. Morrison said Australia was “assisting” with the autopsy.
It is not yet clear whether the PNG coroner will also conduct an inquiry into the death of Berati. Coronial inquests are required to be approved by the PNG National Executive Council, and it has not yet issued any approval relating to Berati’s death.
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