Australia sponsored terrorism claim

A former Australian Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld has claimed that Australia was among the Western powers to have financially backed terrorist regimes. Einfeld also said that the countries anti-terrorism laws leaned toward autocracy.
In an address on the war on terror and civil liberties at the University of Western Sydney, Mr Einfeld said there was plenty of evidence that sponsors of state terrorism, such as Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Peru and Guatemala had been backed and financed by Western powers, including Australia.
"What very few people know or understand, even though the evidence is plain and plentiful, is that many of these countries have been backed and financed by the US and other Western powers, including Australia…” he added
He also blserved that:

“…political transparency is a democratic ideal to which we only pay lip service these days.”

He said terrorism was an age-old phenomenon that was to be condemned in all its guises, and that too often went unpunished.
At the same time, he said, we have to ask how far we can allow ourselves to be led away from fundamental liberal and democratic tenets in the name of the fight against terrorism. Report from the Melbourne Age