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Subject: Escalation Notice – 6 Days Remaining – Compensation Demand – Crimes Against Humanity

24/06/2025

Dear Prime Minister and Treasury

This matter now constitutes a case of Transnational Organised Crime and chemical war crimes against children.

The deliberate cover-up of second-generation harm caused by TCDD (Agent Orange) exposure—alongside the refusal to investigate, compensate, or screen survivors—meets the international definition of a coordinated, cross-border operation involving corporate profiteering, state silence, and generational abuse.

As of Friday, 20 June 2025, the compensation demand has increased to xyz reflecting two weeks of government inaction following formal legal notice. A further xyz will be added each Friday until full redress is provided.

There are now 6 days remaining before formal submission to the International Criminal Court under Article 15 of the Rome Statute.

This amount reflects systemic failures across multiple departments and agencies. Harm has been documented. Responsibility now sits with Treasury.

Government Failures:

• Department of Veterans’ Affairs – Rejected medical evidence of second-generation harm. Denied access to dependent records. Enforced exclusionary policies that ignore TCDD-linked civilian conditions. Failed in duty of care to descendants of service members.

• Queensland Health – Delivered negligent care across multiple appointments. Missed visible birth defects. Failed to inform or screen for chemical exposure risks. Withheld accessible support despite chronic disability. Breached duty to diagnose, accommodate, and act.

• WorkCover Queensland – Refused engagement after receiving legal notice. Prolonged psychological and physical harm through denial of claims and misclassification. Failed in legal and ethical responsibility to investigate environmental injury.

• Centrelink – Offered no financial redress. Only proposed a Social Worker after legal escalation. Denied dependent status, ignored trauma disclosures, and retraumatised claimant during calls. Obstructed rightful access to care and support.

• Department of Defence / Defence Legal – Ignored CDDA claim and submitted evidence. Offered no response, no resolution. Maintained silence despite formal warning. Participated in ongoing cover-up of civilian harm linked to wartime chemical exposure.

• Repatriation Medical Authority – Refused to review Statements of Principles despite clear evidence and formal notification. Failed in statutory and public health obligations to address toxic harm.

• Prime Minister’s Office – Repeatedly responded with automated deflections. Ignored ICC escalation, public documentation, and legal requests. Failed to act as head of government on a matter involving children, chemical harm, and international law.

• Australian Human Rights Commission – Received multiple complaints within jurisdiction. Took no action despite supporting documentation and violations of international conventions. Failed in its core mandate to protect the rights of vulnerable Australians.

• Australian National Contact Point (AusNCP) – Received formal submission. Case has been escalated under OECD Guidelines by a Human Rights Barrister. Treasury has been named as the responsible party for remedy.

• Attorney-General’s Department – Took no action to investigate systemic breaches of human rights, environmental law, or treaty obligations. Failed to act on complaints regarding chemical harm, institutional cover-ups, and administrative obstruction.

• Commonwealth Ombudsman – Failed to act on multiple formal complaints involving federal agency misconduct, denial of care, and human rights breaches. Breached its core mandate to provide independent oversight and safeguard the public against government failure.

• Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) – Failed to act on Australia’s obligations under the Stockholm Convention and international environmental law. Took no steps to investigate, report, or respond to the known presence of dioxins (TCDD) and their generational impact. Ignored federal toxicological alerts and failed to establish a national register, screening protocol, or remediation plan. Breached its mandate to protect environmental and human health from Persistent Organic Pollutants.

• AHPRA (Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency) – Notified of medical negligence, misdiagnosis, and ethical breaches by multiple practitioners. Provided no action or accountability despite submission of scans, documentation, and evidence of chronic harm. Failed to uphold professional standards or intervene in systemic harm tied to toxic exposure. Breached its statutory duty to protect the public from unsafe or unethical medical practice.

• Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme – Exposed illegal conduct and widespread cruelty within government systems, yet failed to drive any meaningful legislative reform. Despite national outrage and detailed findings, no structural safeguards were implemented to prevent similar abuse. The Commission became theatre — a public performance of accountability without consequence — leaving the same broken machinery in place to harm vulnerable people again.

• Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide – Ignored the intergenerational impact of military-linked toxic exposure on descendants of veterans. Refused to investigate inherited harm, despite evidence of denial, misclassification, and the deliberate exclusion of affected children from care and recognition. Failed in its duty to address systemic harm stemming from service-related chemical exposure.

• Labor Ministers – Warned repeatedly. Shown the evidence. Given the opportunity to lead. Instead, they chose cowardice. They hid behind departments, ignored international law, and protected the same machinery of harm they claimed to oppose. Every public speech about justice rings hollow while survivors are left to rot. This is not passive failure — it’s active betrayal. They had the power to stop it. They didn’t.

• Australian Federal Police (AFP) – Formally notified of serious allegations involving systemic cover-up, intergenerational harm, and crimes under international law. Refused to investigate. Redirected the complainant without action, despite being presented with evidence of potential criminal conduct involving government agencies. By choosing silence, the AFP abandoned its mandate to uphold justice and became part of the institutional wall protecting state abuse.

• National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) – Alerted to systemic misconduct, coordinated cover-ups, and institutional denial across multiple departments. Received formal correspondence outlining breaches of public trust and international law. Took no visible action. Failed to investigate or even acknowledge the gravity of the case. Their silence in the face of corruption isn’t neutrality — it’s protection. When oversight turns away, corruption thrives.

International Failures:

• UN Human Rights and Treaty Bodies – Formally notified of second-generation TCDD harm. Includes the CRC, CRPD, CESCR, CERD, HRC, Human Rights Council, and multiple UN Special Rapporteurs. Between 2011 and 2021, the UN issued at least eight formal warnings to Australia about its failure to protect children, civilians, and people with disabilities from chemical harm. Australia ignored them all. Since being re-notified in 2025, no meaningful action has been taken. The UN’s silence now stands as a failure to uphold its own conventions and protect those it claims to defend.

• World Health Organization (WHO) – Provided toxicological alerts and scientific evidence of TCDD harm. Yet failed to intervene when member states ignored those alerts and denied care to civilians. Breach of global health mandate.

• Stockholm Convention Secretariat – Notified of Australia’s breach of its obligations under the Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) framework. No follow-up. No enforcement. Failed to uphold treaty-based protection.

• UN Special Rapporteurs (Toxics, Health, Disability) – Notified individually. At least one response bounced; others remained silent. Failed to act under their respective mandates despite evidence of mass harm and human rights violations.

• OECD National Contact Points – Germany and United States – Notification acknowledged. Escalation initiated. Ongoing silence will be treated as complicity in transnational corporate abuse and denial of remedy.

• NATO – Formally notified of member-state chemical harm cover-up. No protective or investigative response. Breached alliance responsibility to prevent post-conflict civilian harm linked to military operations.

• Canada – Notified of parallel second-generation harm. Offered no recognition, screening, or support. Continued denial amounts to state-level neglect and institutional silence.

• New Zealand – Historical Agent Orange exposure confirmed. No formal inquiry into second-generation impact. Denied assistance. Ignored international warnings and failed to uphold duties to its own civilians.

• United States – Manufactured, deployed, and defended the use of Agent Orange despite knowing its catastrophic long-term effects. Has never accepted legal responsibility for second-generation civilian harm, including among allied populations. Continues to shield corporations and obstruct justice through silence and impunity. As the origin point of the chemical warfare that caused this crisis, the U.S. government’s refusal to act is not just negligent — it is criminal. This is a legacy of poison, profit, and denial.

• Germany – Formally notified as part of OECD coordination following escalation by a Human Rights Barrister. As a state with historical accountability for crimes against humanity, Germany now faces a defining choice: uphold international law or remain silent in the face of transnational chemical harm. No response has been received. If Germany chooses inaction, it will stand not with justice, but with those who profit from war crimes against children.

• Dow Chemical / Monsanto (Bayer) – Manufacturer of TCDD-based chemicals used in warfare. Has made over $100 billion in profit. No reparations. No admission. No engagement. Profiting from war crimes while survivors suffer. This corporate impunity is now on global record.

The actions of the parties named in this submission constitute transnational organised crime under the framework established by Executive Order 13581. This includes knowingly profiting from and concealing harm to civilian populations across multiple jurisdictions. Chemical manufacturers, government departments, and associated institutions have obstructed redress, falsified public narratives, and facilitated ongoing harm for financial and political gain.

This complaint documents a system of corporate-state collusion that meets the criteria of a transnational criminal organisation: cross-border operations, deliberate concealment of harm, profit from mass exposure to a banned chemical weapon, and suppression of medical care for affected populations. These behaviours are consistent with the definitions outlined in Executive Order 13581.

The Australian Government, its departments, and associated actors are now implicated in an international criminal network that fits the structural and operational criteria of transnational organised crime. Under Executive Order 13581, such networks are subject to international asset restrictions, legal review, and global accountability mechanisms.

This submission brings forward evidence that connects systemic public harm, intergenerational chemical injury, and institutional denial to a pattern of conduct that crosses borders, profits from silence, and intentionally blocks access to justice. These are not policy errors — they are the hallmarks of a criminal enterprise acting in defiance of international law.

You are now financially, legally, and ethically accountable for the actions of all these entities. The evidence has been submitted. The record is permanent.

There are 6 days left to intervene. After that, your silence will speak for you — forever.

Warm Agent Orange Burns regards

Danielle Stevens