Radio Interview – ABC RN Breakfast
Subjects: Australia’s Secrecy Offences, INSLM review of Part 5.6 of the Criminal Code Act 1995
The Monitor noted that secrecy offences have an important role to play in protecting national security and other critical national interests. There is some information which, in the wrong hands, could genuinely harm those interests. In this interview, the Monitor noted the importance of ensuring that the criminal law enables harmful disclosures to be prosecuted, but is also nuanced, proportionate and cascading so that it does not criminalise disclosures which are not harmful and that the offences themselves do not themselves undermine Rule of Law principles including those associated with certainty and knowability.