Article 5ZY3M Crossbenchers urge new attorney general to end prosecution of Bernard Collaery

Crossbenchers urge new attorney general to end prosecution of Bernard Collaery

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Christopher Knaus
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Greens and independents back calls for Mark Dreyfus to withdraw commonwealth consent to all charges in alleged Timor-Leste bugging case

Key crossbenchers are urging the attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, to immediately intervene to end the previous government's pursuit of Bernard Collaery by withdrawing commonwealth consent to the prosecution.

The outgoing senator Rex Patrick, a persistent critic of the Collaery prosecution, wrote to Dreyfus soon after his appointment as attorney general in the Albanese government, urging immediate action ... to end the ... prosecution of Mr Bernard Collaery".

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