Secrecy of Bernard Collaery trial risked damaging public’s faith in administration of justice, court rules | Witness K case | The Guardian

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.

The LNP threw the fundamental pillars of this country’s Democracy out the window. The believed they were the rulers not the elected employees of the Federation. The Separation of Powers was a concept disposed of in their trash can of history. The Judiciary, Religion and Public Service weren’t just absorbed but taken. They rid the nation of ASTIC as they couldn’t acknowledge first peoples but rather than a Multicultural mistake. Indigenous Australians weren’t be truly recognized with a voice as other Colonial states had in the past they were immigrants aliens in Australia. The Intervention was Howard’s major redirect of policy and control along with budget cuts increased by their self-declared best mate Tony Abbott and celebrated by the IPA and Mining Companies in the Murdoch and other corporate mainstream media as long as Abbott and the LNP promised to neuter the ABC.

Justice Helen Murrell says principles of open justice trump national security and urges Albanese government to publish initial ruling ‘with as few variations as possible’

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