Lawyers for David McBride, the former army officer being prosecuted for disclosing alleged unlawful killings of civilians by Australian troops in Afghanistan, have said they were allowed just two hours to examine thousands of government documents about his case.
Mr McBride has not yet seen the evidence, he said. "This is what an authoritarian state does," he said.Mr Xenophon, a senator for South Australia from 2008 to 2017, gave the example on the ABC'sprogram as an illustration of what he said was a trend of national security laws shielding the government from scrutiny and depriving whistleblowers of their legal rights.sparked the Australian Federal Police raid on the ABC's headquarters last year.
"Ultimately in our case, it will be a judge that makes the decision," Mr Richardson said. "It will not be the government.journalist whose home was also raided in 2019, said security laws should weigh up the need to stop Australia's enemies learning our intelligence services' methods and officers' identities against Australians' right to scrutinise what is done in their name.
Mr Richardson said the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security had strong powers to keep Australia's spies in check, recalling a 10-hour grilling he had faced.
A notion regarding national security, is now exposed. The scientifically identified Network of Global Corporate Control (now insolvent) into which Australia is fully incorporated, owns the entirety of intelligence agencies, also firing scalar tech weapons on all of humanity
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