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By Murray Hunter, published 20/8/2019An Elephant on Your Nose is both an encaptivating 'spy' story set in Japan, and an enlightening commentary about new regional security realities.
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Posted by plantagenet, Sunday, 1 September 2019 8:43:46 PM
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"Secrets, Spies and Trials" at http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/secrets,-spies-and-trials/11451004
“STEVE CANNANE: Bernard Collaery has prepared for trial many times before... but never for one like this.
When he appears in the ACT Supreme Court it will be for the first time as a defendant.
With the full force of the Commonwealth against him, it's shaping up to be the fight of his life.
BERNARD COLLAERY: My papers and can I have my phone too.
MATILDA WALL, LAW CLERK, COLLAERY LAWYERS: Good luck.
BERNARD COLLAERY: Well, my practice earnings have crashed. It stopped my practice in the superior court effectively. It's the effective end of my career.
STEVE CANNANE: Are you able to tell us how this prosecution has impacted on Witness K?
BERNARD COLLAERY: I don't dare answer your question because I might pour out a torrent of heartfelt views.
I want to say this: when this is over and dusted, I will have a lot to say. I will have a lot to say.
We live in a country that understands the boomerang. There's a boomerang out there that's going to come back, regardless of that outcome.”
ENDS
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To reiterate:
On this OLO thread a above, is the whole 5,996 word Transcript of the ABC Four Corners, Monday August 26, 2019 episode "Secrets, Spies and Trials" http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/secrets,-spies-and-trials/11451004 on the now separate "Witness K" and Bernard Collaery Cases
The aim is TO RETAIN THE RECORD for posterity. So the Transcript and iView video do not simply fall off the ABC website in a few days/weeks/months.
The Canberra Times, August 29, 2019, advises http://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6355695/ex-spy-witness-k-returns-to-court-over-east-timor-bugging/
"A former spy known only as Witness K has returned to court over a bugging scandal involving East Timor.
The ex-intelligence officer is poised to plead guilty to conspiring to share secret information with the East Timorese government in relation the 2004 diplomatic scandal.
After a brief procedural hearing in the ACT Magistrates Court on Thursday morning, his case was adjourned until September 13.
Witness K faces potential jail time for..."
[before the court and secret]