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Witness K case

May 2024

  • Former army lawyer David McBride

    The jailing of David McBride is a dark day for democracy and press freedom in Australia

    Kieran Pender and Peter Greste
    Does it really make our country a better place to imprison a whistleblower whose actions led to public interest reporting on war crimes in Afghanistan?

January 2024

  • Bernard Collaery

    Labor shelves election promise for inquiry into prosecution of Witness K and Bernard Collaery

  • Bernard Collaery was charged with leaking classified information for allegedly helping his client reveal a mission to spy on Timor-Leste during negotiations over oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea in 2004.

    Secrecy of Bernard Collaery trial risked damaging public’s faith in administration of justice, court rules

September 2023

  • Australia’s attorney general Mark Dreyfus speaking in parliament.

    Labor gives parliament only limited powers to examine unlawful spying after Timor-Leste scandal

    ALP had pledged to give parliamentary intelligence committee certain powers to enable an investigation of Timor-Leste bugging scandal

July 2023

  • Bernard Collaery speaking at a press conference

    Bernard Collaery’s lawyers argue secret ‘court-only’ evidence should be banned in national security cases

    In evidence to the national security law watchdog, the legal team said the NSI Act had fundamental issues and needed reforming
  • Australian foreign minister Penny Wong visits Timor-Leste’s president Jose Ramos Horta.

    ‘Not in the spirit of our friendship’: Penny Wong concedes past Australian wrongs in Timor-Leste

    Foreign minister says previous governments have treated the country in ‘disappointing’ ways during visit to Dili
  • A close-up portrait of Bernard Collaery looking serious.

    Bernard Collaery trial highlights ‘prohibitive’ and ‘onerous’ government secrecy restrictions, lawyers claim

    Exclusive: Whistleblower’s legal team detailed the ‘profound’ cost of the commonwealth’s rules in inquiry into the effectiveness of the National Security Information Act 2004

January 2023

  • Bernard Collaery

    Labor flags law reforms to stop cases involving national security being cloaked in secrecy

    Bernard Collaery welcomes proposed changes as attorney general recognises importance of open justice and public interest

November 2022

  • Bernard Collaery

    Bernard Collaery case: Australian government’s legal bill spirals despite dropped prosecution

    Legal bill grows by $248,000 in three months to October in ongoing pursuit of secrecy

October 2022

  • Bernard Collaery, at a press conference

    Bernard Collaery likens his prosecution by Australia to a ‘Moscow show trial’

    Witness K’s lawyer gives first speech since case against him was dropped, argues for reform of the National Security Information Act

July 2022

  • Bernard Collaery

    Albanese government continues push to keep parts of Bernard Collaery case secret

  • Bernard Collaery

    Gareth Evans says conviction of Witness K should be reversed after Bernard Collaery decision

  • Lawyer Bernard Collaery

    ‘Witness K and Bernard Collaery are heroes’: how Australia made two men pay for its dirty secrets

  • Kieran Pender

    Justice for Bernard Collaery must be the beginning of decisive action on whistleblowers

    Kieran Pender

  • José Ramos-Horta pleased ‘fairness prevailed’ in Bernard Collaery case

  • Justice finally arrives for Bernard Collaery but damage has already been done

    Christopher Knaus

  • Prosecution of whistleblower lawyer Bernard Collaery dropped after decision by attorney general

June 2022

  • ACT barrister, lawyer and former politician Bernard Collaery arrives at the ACT courts on 16th September 2021.

    Coalition government spent $6m prosecuting Bernard Collaery and three other whistleblowers

  • Bernard Collaery

    Crossbenchers urge new attorney general to end prosecution of Bernard Collaery

May 2022

  • Nobel laureate Jose Ramos Horta, the new-elected President of East Timor, delivers his speech after taking his oath during the swearing ceremony in Dili, East Timor, May 20, 2022.

    José Ramos-Horta accuses Alexander Downer of ‘distorting’ issues around 2004 Timor-Leste bugging

    Exclusive: President of south-east Asian nation says Australia used cover of ‘supposedly altruistic foreign aid program’ to spy on behalf of oil companies
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