Christopher Knaus – The nation's peak legal group has thrown its support behind Bernard Collaery as he defends the Timor-Leste spying case, warning that laws used to shroud proceedings
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October 16, 2020
The Guardian - October 16, 2020
September 30, 2020
The Guardian - September 30, 2020
Christopher Knaus – Government lawyers have invoked cabinet confidence in an attempt to stop Bernard Collaery and his team from viewing a briefing to the prime minister relevant to the
September 2, 2020
The Guardian - September 2, 2020
Christopher Knaus – The former Timor-Leste president Jose Ramos-Horta has urged Australia to show wisdom, honesty and compassion by stopping the unfair prosecution of Witness K and Bern
August 26, 2020
The Guardian - August 26, 2020
Christopher Knaus – Attorney general Christian Porter has been accused of abusing the National Security Information Act after interfering in court proceedings to screen documents held b
August 16, 2020
The Guardian - August 16, 2020
Ian Cunliffe – Timor-Leste only achieved independence in 2002. It was Asia's poorest country and desperately needed revenue.
July 23, 2020
Sydney Morning Herald - July 23, 2020
Ian Cunliffe – Anyone who is interested knows in their heart that the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, on behalf of the government, bugged the cabinet room and other offices of
July 16, 2020
WA Today - July 16, 2020
John Hewson – Scott Morrison has stated he wants to govern in the "Howard tradition", but sadly that has also entailed adopting the worst of John Howard's strategies: to admit or expla
July 11, 2020
The Guardian - July 11, 2020
Kim McGrath – In the first week of January 2019, a private jet landed at Presidente Nicolau Lobato International Airport in Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste.
July 10, 2020
The Guardian - July 10, 2020
Christopher Knaus – Bernard Collaery has signalled he will appeal against a ruling that shrouds crucial parts of his trial in secrecy.
June 27, 2020
Eurasia Review - June 27, 2020
Binoy Kampmark – This week has not been a good one for the Australian legal system.
March 19, 2020
Inside Story - March 19, 2020
Hamish McDonald – With the release of his book detailing the sorry saga of Australia's negotiations with less well-equipped neighbours over oil in the Timor Sea, Canberra lawyer Bernar
November 27, 2019
ABC News - November 27, 2019
Elizabeth Byrne – Two ex-leaders of Timor-Leste and a former Australian cabinet minister have provided evidence in support of Bernard Collaery, the lawyer for Australian ex-spy "Witnes
November 15, 2019
Australian Associated Press - November 15, 2019
The former spy who revealed an Australian bugging scandal in East Timor will face a plea hearing in April.
October 17, 2019
Australian Associated Press - October 17, 2019
A Canberra court has shut down a private citizen's bid to provide advice to the court in a trial involving an East Timor bugging scandal.
October 7, 2019
Australian Associated Press - October 7, 2019
Human rights lawyers say the case against a whistleblower at the centre of a bugging scandal involving East Timor should never have made it to court.
October 2, 2019
Australian Associated Press - October 2, 2019
The judge overseeing a case against the lawyer of a former spy at the centre of a bugging scandal involving East Timor could face 10 years in jail if he breaches secrecy arrangements.
Australian Associated Press - October 2, 2019
The judge overseeing a case against the lawyer of a former spy at the centre of a bugging scandal involving East Timor could face 10 years in jail if he breaches secrecy arrangements.
September 26, 2019
Australian Associated Press - September 26, 2019
The long-running legal cases of a former spy and his lawyer, who are at the centre of a bugging scandal involving East Timor, have returned to a Canberra court.
September 16, 2019
Australian Associated Press - September 16, 2019
A magistrate presiding over the case of a former spy who blew the whistle on an East Timor bugging scandal has bemoaned the matter proceeding "unnaturally slowly".
August 30, 2019
Sydney Morning Herald - August 30, 2019
James Massola, Dili – Prime Minister Scott Morrison has dismissed calls for the Australian government to drop the prosecution of whistleblowers Bernard Collaery and Witness K.
Australian Associated Press - August 30, 2019
Australia will not compensate East Timor for an alleged $5 billion in gas revenue it collected during a previous treaty signed after it spied on the country by bugging its offices.
August 29, 2019
Associated Press - August 29, 2019
Rod McGuirk – A former Australian spy charged with conspiring to reveal classified information about an allegation that Australia bugged East Timor's government during negotiations ove
SBS News - August 29, 2019
Timor-Leste's Nobel Peace Prize-winning former Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta says Australia "should get over it" and drop charges against two whistleblowers who revealed covert spyin
The Guardian - August 29, 2019
Paul Karp – Counsel for the former spy Witness K has launched a broadside at Legal Aid ACT, accusing it of an "extraordinary unexplained roadblock" in approving funding for the whistle
August 28, 2019
Sydney Morning Herald - August 28, 2019
James Massola, Dili – Some of East Timor's most respected political leaders are demanding the Morrison government drop the prosecution of Australian whistleblowers Bernard Collaery and