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Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus orders Commonwealth to drop charges against lawyer Bernard Collaery

Bernard Collaery was charged in 2018 with helping his client, an ex-spy known only as Witness K, to reveal details of an alleged Australian spying operation in East Timor. (ABC News: Nick Haggarty)

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has ordered the Commonwealth to drop the prosecution of lawyer Bernard Collaery, four years after he was charged with conspiring to release classified information about an alleged spying operation in East Timor.

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