Albanese government continues push to keep parts of Bernard Collaery case secret

Human Rights Law Centre says new attorney general should abandon the appeal and let judgment finally see the light'

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Lawyers for the Albanese government will maintain a push by the former attorney general to impose secrecy over parts of a key decision in the Bernard Collaery case.

Earlier this month, the attorney general Mark Dreyfus made the momentous decision to end the prosecution of Collaery for the lawyer's role in exposing Australia's 2004 bugging of Timor-Leste's government, along with his client, a former Australian Secret Intelligence Service officer known only as Witness K.