Operation Sovereign Absurdity is destroying the military's credibility

By Paddy Gourley
Updated April 23 2018 - 10:03pm, first published April 1 2014 - 3:00am

All hell broke loose when, during February's Senate estimates hearings, shadow defence minister Stephen Conroy told the head of the tendentiously designated Operation Sovereign Borders, General Angus Campbell, that he was ''engaged in a political cover-up''.

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