The ACT Court of Appeal found there was a very real risk of damage to public confidence in the administration of justice if the evidence could not be publicly disclosed.
Tehran-born Melbourne-based artist Hoda Afshar has won the 2021 Ramsay Art Award’s people’s choice award.
A former spy has been handed a three-month suspended sentence for conspiring to reveal classified information about an alleged Australian operation to bug East Timor’s cabinet rooms.
The former spy has pleaded guilty to conspiring to reveal classified information,paving the way for him to be sentenced within weeks.
A whistleblower who exposed lax anti-money laundering compliance in NSW poker machines faces a legal bill worth hundreds of thousands of dollars after losing a court fight to keep his communications with Independent MP Andrew Wilkie confidential.
Australia’s national security watchdog says there is no reason why some details about the secret prosecution of a former Australian spy could not have been published years ago.
Secret trials are the hallmark of authoritarian regimes yet Witness J was tried in complete secrecy in Canberra.
Westpac chief executive Peter King urged a senior risk executive who raised compliance breaches to seek whistleblower protections just months before she was dismissed from the bank,according to a legal complaint.
Bernard Collaery is appealing a ruling to hold his trial in secret,but on Monday his lawyer didn’t challenge the appeal being held in secret.
Bernard Collaery,who allegedly helped a client reveal Australia bugged East Timor’s cabinet,will challenge a court order requiring large parts of his trial to be held in secret.
A review by the corporate watchdog has found many companies failed to adapt to recent laws aimed at protecting staff who blow the whistle.