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“Witness K” convicted for exposing Australia’s illegal bugging in East Timor A former senior Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) officer, known publicly only as “Witness K,” was sentenced to a suspended jail term last Friday. His “crime” was to blow the whistle on the Howard Liberal-National government’s use of ASIS to plant a listening device in East Timor’s cabinet room in 2004 during crucial oil and gas negotiations. While “Witness K,” now 70, was spared immediate imprisonment after pleading guilty to breaching his secrecy obligations as an intelligence official, the current Liberal-National government and the magistrate presiding over the case insisted that he had to be punished to “send a message” on “national security.” ....
Australian defence minister launches “frank discussion” on war against China Age and Sydney Morning Herald, on Monday published an “exclusive interview” with recently-installed Defence Minister Peter Dutton, in which he vowed to conduct a “more frank discussion with the public” about the prospect of war against China. Dutton’s front-page interview is part of a synchronised campaign by the Liberal-National government, and the political establishment as whole, to condition public opinion to prepare for what would be a catastrophic war involving nuclear weapons, launched by the US against China in order to reassert the global hegemony that American imperialism secured in World War II. ....