Disregard, sorry, it's Greg Barnes from the Australian Lawyers Alliance who has defended Wikileaks' Julian Assangehttps://twitter.com/finbaromallon/status/1174831230908432384 …
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Barnes has said laws protecting media agencies doesn't protect "non-traditional agencies" like Wikileaks.
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Barnes: "The issue is always, what is a secret?" He points to Wikileaks revealing war crimes in 2010.
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Liberal senator David Fawcett has asked why should whistleblowers break the law when there are sufficient internal mechanisms to raise the alarm? Barnes says that's a matter of if the whistleblower is told to go away, shut up or their concerns aren't taken seriously.
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Barnes won't name the case but he's seems to point to the case of Witness K as an example. (And for that matter, Witness K's lawyer, Bernard Collaery.)
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Barnes is done. Not going to embarrass myself again and say who's up next until I see 'em.
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