AWW22 Australia's War on Whistleblowers - Bernard Collaery, David McBride and Jennifer Robinson

Chaired by Andrew Fowler


Australia's recent treatment of high-profile whistleblowers has
been shockingly punitive. Three lawyers speak from intimate
experience. Bernard Collaery has faced an ongoing four-year
ordeal for representing Witness K, a former ASIS officer who
alleged the Commonwealth illegally spied on impoverished
neighbour Timor Leste for private commercial gain. David McBride
faces life in prison after the Government elected to pursue
charges against him for revealing the allegations of war crimes
in Afghanistan that led to the Brereton Report. Jennifer Robinson
represents Wikileaks founder and abandoned Australian citizen
Julian Assange.