• Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
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    10 months ago

    The article doesn’t say what arguments were disallowed: he is not allowed to cite the public interest as a defense for his actions, because the Australian military supposedly must follow orders over considering the public’s wellbeing.

    They just said out loud that the military are goons that serve the ruling class.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah?

      This wasn’t a secret, it’s really only American propaganda that’s got them thinking soldiers are hero’s and protector’s or something.

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        10 months ago

        It was an open secret, but codifying it into law is yet another sign of the country’s rightward slide into fascism. Now they can’t deny it.