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Crossbenchers urge new attorney general to end prosecution of Bernard Collaery
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.
- Christopher Knaus
- The Guardian
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”.
Patrick called on…