Dear Andrew,

I repudiate the terms of the deed of release I signed with the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) on 11 September 2014.

I was induced to sign the deed by the deception of then ACCI President, Peter Hood. I regard Hood as a person of low moral character, unsuited to a leadership position in any capacity. Hood's policy comprehension is limited, his understanding of politics negligible and his moral character is obviously flawed.

The actions of the Clean Energy Council and their Media Manager, Mark Bretherton, in doxxing me in an attempt to get me fired is a truly remarkable and appalling innovation in the practice of their advocacy on behalf of the renewable energy industry. Kane Thornton remains CEO of the Clean Energy Council and refuses to take my phone calls in relation to the matter.

Bretherton's conduct, and its apparent licence by the senior executive at the Clean Energy Council was despicable enough, but to have his actions magnified a thousand fold in the organs of the now largely discredited legacy media, speaks to the urgent need to adequately regulate the conduct of journalists and their editors. It is obvious to competent professionals that the Canberra Press Gallery is incompetent, unethical and wildly hypocritical. Much of the conduct of the media is now regarded rightly with contempt by ordinary Australians, and in many instances simply evil.

I was wrong not to pursue legal action against the Chamber in 2014 as a result of the unlawful threat to terminate my employment by then ACCI CEO, Kate Carnell. Carnell is a psychopath, and it is my strong opinion that she should seek psychiatric care and be quarantined from damaging other people until she can manage her condition. I do not say such things without having given them serious consideration. Carnell's behaviour as CEO was deceitful, manipulative and involved repeated instances of serious unethical and unlawful behaviour, it does not surprise me that Carnell's tenure at the Chamber only lasted 18 months.

The result of my failure to pursue legal redress against the Chamber has been catastrophic for the nation, its politics and its policy discourse. Following Bretherton's successful doxxing of one of the Chamber's senior executives, for which he has received no reproach or penalty, hard-left activists have doubled-down on the politics of personal destruction and over time unleashed ever more extreme attack patterns. I hold the men and women on the ACCI Board at the time collectively responsible, but reserve particular disdain for Hood.

When Rick Wallace of The Australian rang me at Melbourne airport to ask me about my private Facebook posts on the morning of 28 August 2014, my instinctive reaction was the correct one, I thought he couldn't possibly be serious. "It's either a free country, or it's not", was my response, to which the answer is now obvious, and my own personal culpability in bringing about this state of affairs is a matter of personal regret that has hung over me now for more than decade.

Weak leadership has brought Australia to this position, and it must be condemned, to that end I herein repudiate the deed of release.

Yours Sincerely,

Burchell Wilson