AUDIO: AFP raids on journalists 'a failure of governance': Bernard Collaery
Bernard Collaery is an Australian lawyer who is facing prosecution, along with a whistleblower known only as Witness K, for their roles in revealing that Australia had covertly bugged the East Timor government during sensitive oil and gas negotiations in 2004.
As with the raids today and yesterday over examples of investigative journalism in the public interest, involving leaks, the Collaery/Witness K case has raised questions about state overreach and silencing reporting of matters in the public interest. He says the rule of law involves far greater issues than technicalities, and that the Prime Minister must weigh up the values in cases of public interest journalism and possibly intervene in raids such as those that have just occurred.Bernard Collaery, Australian lawyer facing prosecution
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