Call for reform to Australian National Security Information Act

An Australian lawyer, Bernard Collaery, calls for reforms in the National Security Information Act which allowed the government to put his client, a whistleblower, and Collaery himself on trial secretly.

The national shame that they revealed was that Australia spied on East Timor's negotiators in order to impose a disadvantageous deal on East Timor about undersea fossil fuel reserves between the two countries.

That deal was eventually replaced with a fairer deal, but both versions of the deal were dangerous for humanity because both permitted the fossil fuels to be extracted and burnt. The only safe thing to do with new fossil fuel reserves is keep them in the ground.