[jpgvm]

First Australian to go to jail over Afghanistan & Iraq is a whistle-blower. Truly a kangaroo legal system.

I find it hard to blame the judge here, it is their duty to discharge the law as written.

However Australia's laws are inherently anti-whistle-blower and IMO therefore anti-democratic. How are the people expected to hold their leaders accountable if their leaders are legally allowed to deceive them and punish any who would expose that deceit?

Claiming that "national security" should somehow trump what are meant to be the most core tenets of our society is just simply more proof that the ruling class considers themselves above criticism, even if it costs the truth to snuff it out.

Why is it we can have a government that is so consistently anti-Australian? The politics of it don't seem to matter because swapping parties in and out hasn't had any impact. Both sides of the ruling class still believe they are above us while still preaching tall-poppy syndrome for the rest of us.

[gopher_space]

It's interesting to look at the shelf-life of actual, logistical national security issues and compare that to the "peeling an onion" rhetoric around information release. The useful time span seems to be weeks to a handful of years.

[croes]

What's so special about australian treatment of whistle blowers compared to the US?

Chelsea Manning went to jail for something similar.

I bet other countries act exactly the same way