The attorney-general should use his power to halt the prosecutions of two men facing trial over their roles in providing information to the media about government wrongdoing, say crossbenchers and press freedom advocates, with independent MP Andrew Wilkie calling Mark Dreyfus’s justification for not intervening “bullshit”.
Wilkie told Crikey that he had discussed the impending trials against Australian Taxation Office (ATO) ex-employee Richard Boyle and army lawyer David McBride with Dreyfus. Wilkie said Dreyfus had told him he was not inclined to intervene because he did not want to override independent prosecutors.
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