The anti-corruption commission has a weakness: whistleblowers.
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The Treatment of Whistleblowers in Australia
Two whistleblowers are on trial for doing what they thought was the right thing in speaking up about government wrongdoing. Former military lawyer Dave McBride and Richard Boyle who worked at the tax office were both charged with leaking information to the media. The McBride case is particularly perverse because he will face trial as the first person to face trial in relation to Australia's war crimes in Afghanistan. Both of these people thought they were doing the right thing.
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