Opinion

How is David McBride's prosecution in the public interest?

By Kathryn Kelly
December 8 2020 - 5:25am
Whistleblower David McBride is facing five national security-related charges, carrying up to life imprisonment, for leaking information to the ABC. Picture: Alexandra Back
Whistleblower David McBride is facing five national security-related charges, carrying up to life imprisonment, for leaking information to the ABC. Picture: Alexandra Back

Independent MP Andrew Wilkie last week put a motion in Parliament noting that military lawyer David McBride had been warning Defence about command failings and about the conduct of the war in Afghanistan since 2014. When no effective action was taken, Major McBride provided information to the ABC which raised the alarm on the matters before us in the Brereton report, and subsequently he was arrested. Wilkie's motion further called for all charges against Major McBride to be dropped. The information he had provided to the ABC formed the basis of the "Afghan Files" broadcast in July 2017.

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