Commonwealth prosecutors say soldiers such as whistleblower David McBride should not be guided by something “as nebulous as the public interest”, an argument the defence has said “ignores higher duties”.
McBride, a former military lawyer, is facing five charges in the ACT supreme court relating to his alleged leaking of documents to the ABC. The public broadcaster used the material as the basis for a 2017 series on Australian war crimes in Afghanistan called The Afghan Files.
