Time To Draw The Line | Film
Time To Draw The Line
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23.01.2022 Well worth a listen
22.01.2022 https://www.abc.net.au//bernard-collaery-on-our-t/12049638
21.01.2022 Some recent media excursions into the Witness K and Bernard Collaery affair. The great bulk of effort has been made by The Guardian, Crikey, and The Saturday Paper, so it’s about time the others got on deck. Here are some links: A piece by Adam Harvey on ABC 7:30. 16 June. Not the video but the text.... Media Watch with Paul Barry 15 June. Video just over 9 minutes. Espionage and Open Democracy 16 June. Editorial in The Australian. This is a pdf. Why is Bernard Collaery’s trial a secret? 16 June Article by Steve Bracks in The Australian. Again, a pdf. Monday 22 June 9:35 p.m. ABC TV QandA Here’s something from QandA itself: Secrets, spies and hidden trials How do we balance national security with your right to know? Closed courtrooms, police raids on journalists, whistle blowers facing prison terms for sharing sensitive information. Is Australia becoming a secret state? Who should decide what we can and can’t know? Lawyer Bernard Collaery is facing jail for revealing national secrets relating to the bugging of East Timor’s cabinet room to gain an advantage in oil and gas negotiations. A man known only as Witness J was jailed in the ACT for 15 months for unspecified offences after a secret trial a case even the ACT Government knew nothing about. And News Corp Journalist Annika Smethurst had her home raided by AFP officers and was threatened with charges after revealing, with the help of a whistle blower, plans by a spy agency to step up domestic spying against Australians. Joining us on the panel this week: Lawyer and former Senator Nick Xenophon, who is representing David McBride and is also an advocate for Bernard Collaery; Raid victim and journalist Annika Smethurst; Security experts Jacinta Carroll and Clinton Fernandes; And Dennis Richardson, who was Director-General of ASIO when our anti-terror laws were ramped up following 9/11 and the Bali bombings.
21.01.2022 https://www.theguardian.com//coalition-spends-2m-on-prosec
17.01.2022 Judge David Mossop’s decision on whether the Attorney-General’s certificate asserting that certain evidence will prejudice national security if heard in public will be delivered at 2:15 p.m. this Friday, 26 June. It’s not listed on the Court site yet. If you’re able to be there it would be great. You could view these programs and share them with family and friends: Christian Porter and a secret trial have destroyed my practice, Witness K lawyer Bernard Collaery says Adam Harv...ey ABC 7:30 16 June 2020 Here’s a transcript. Exclusive interview with former ACT attorney-general lawyer Bernard Collaery who’s at the centre of a secret trial the media can’t cover Paul Barry Media Watch 15 June 2020 Click here for Transcript QandA on Monday last was another contribution to the public’s knowledge about this and associated trials. https://www.abc.net.au/qanda/episodes/ Transcript soon. More information at www.justly.info
16.01.2022 Excellent timeline of events in the Witness K and Collaery saga with links to media articles. This site is regularly updated.
16.01.2022 1. The hearing at the ACT Supreme Court this morning was another wrangle about secrecy and national security. Here’s an account: https://www.theguardian.com//witness-k-lawyer-bernard-coll 2. Bernard Collaery shares the Empty Chair Award bestowed by Liberty Victoria. Congratulations are in order.... https://libertyvictoria.org.au/civicrm/mailing/view Bernard and Witness J (not Witness K) are joint winners of Liberty Victoria’s Empty Chair Award. We are all invited to hear from Bernard at the Voltaire Awards Webinar on Friday 24 July at 7pm. This is an opportunity to hear from Bernard himself. Click this link to join in: https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=636570& 3. And here’s a chance to make YOUR voice heard! The Lawyers Weekly Awards are ripe for the plucking. Click on this link and choose from the stellar line-up: https://www.lawyersweekly.com.au//28834-vote-now-for-the-f I know who I’ll be voting for. 4. VISUALS Here’s a link to the preview of Time to Draw the Line a fine presentation of the background. Essential for understanding this complex matter. https://www.roninfilms.com.au/video/0/0/14115.html And Gil Scrine’s great work can be followed here: https://www.facebook.com/reluctantsaviour Please follow us on Facebook: Timor Sea Justice Forum and Twitter: @TSJForum
14.01.2022 At last, a mainstream media article on the secret hearings in Canberra this week. Thank you Christopher Knaus and The Guardian. Please read, share and contact the Attorney Journey to say enough is enough!
10.01.2022 From Reluctant Saviour is with Gil Scrine. 15 hrs A little segment on the @ABC7.30 report (June 16 2020).... Bernard Collaery says his law practice has been destroyed by the secret Witness K trial One of Australia's most senior lawyers says his practice has been destroyed by a secretive prosecution championed by the Federal Government. Bernard Collaery is being prosecuted for revealing national secrets. His fight to have his trial held in public is now backed by top legal figures and a former Defence Force chief.
06.01.2022 Plus an excellent report by ABC's Media Watch this week
06.01.2022 A repository, dating back to May 2013, of media coverage about the 2004 bugging of the Timor Leste government Offices and the charges and trials of witness K and Bernard Collaery
04.01.2022 Join the AETA zoom seminar with Ambassador Ines Almeida on 8th July
02.01.2022 Critical to highlight the travesty of justice in our so called democracy
