FOREIGN Minister Bob Carr has been urged to intervene in the case of a Melbourne businessman languishing in Dubai following a three-year murky legal case.
Matt Joyce, 45, from Melbourne, was arrested in January 2009 on suspicion of bribery while working on a development project for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government-owned Nakheel property group.
He was charged along with Marcus Lee, from Sydney.
During a Senate adjournment debate speech on Thursday night Liberal senator Helen Kroger said the prosecution's evidence was dubious and had been scrutinised in the Victorian Supreme Court in June this year.
"In his judgement, Justice Croft found that Mr Joyce and his co-accused are victims of a false complaint to Dubai authorities by senior executives of Sunland," she told the chamber.
She acknowledged that Australia had a long history of not interfering with the judicial systems of other nations when it came to cases involving Australian citizens.
However, Senator Kroger said the "inconsistent and seemingly random way" the Labor government gets involved in such cases demanded questions.
Senator Carr had made "public diplomatic entreaties" in the case of a Tasmanian lawyer who is detained in Mongolia, working for Rio Tinto.
"We all recall Prime Minister Gillard getting on the phone personally to speak to the young man and his parents who was charged and imprisoned in Bali for carrying drugs," she said.
"Why hasn't the prime minister or the foreign minister picked up the phone and pursued diplomatic channels in seeking a resolution to this travesty of justice?"
Senator Kroger said Ms Gillard had "not sought to make direct contact," in the case of Mr Joyce but had written a letter to the Head of the Rulers Court.
There was a danger more Australians could find themselves potentially in trouble in United Arab Emirates because of the Qantas and Emirates partnership agreement with Dubai being the transit stopover for all Qantas international flights, Senator Kroger said.
"There have been many speeches made in this place about forgotten people, forgotten Australians, and it is with great sadness that I suggest that another name needs to be added to this list," she said.
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