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

It was hard to watch the bureaucratic machine perpetrating injustice – Mark Dreyfus must now intervene in the other two cases

It was easy to feel hopeless, watching from the sidelines as a brave whistleblower went through hell.

For four years now, Bernard Collaery has been in legal battle with the Australian government – dozens of judgments, scores of hearings, millions of dollars and a trial approaching. All for doing the right thing, for allegedly speaking up about government wrongdoing. And what wrongdoing it was: Australia’s espionage against an impoverished, war-torn neighbour, to cheat it of billions of dollars in the extraction of oil and gas from underneath the Timor Sea.

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