Labor announces inquiry into East Timor bugging operation if elected | Gallo_Ways
for conspiring to reveal classified information about intelligence agency ASIS’s bugging of East Timor’s cabinet rooms during sensitive oil and gas treaty negotiations.
Mr Collaery is continuing to fight the charges against him in the ACT Supreme Court, where a two-day court hearing into an appeal brought by him challenging a secrecy order wasIndependent senator Rex Patrick has moved a motion in the Senate to refer the 2004 bugging operation to a parliamentary inquiry.
She said a Labor government would instead amend the Intelligence Services Act to allow Parliament’s security and intelligence committee to refer particular operations of Australian intelligence and security agencies. “For reasons that have not been publicly explained, Mr Morrison’s former attorney-general, Mr Porter, personally authorised the prosecution of Witness K and Mr Collaery.”
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