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Barrister and former ACT Attorney-General Collaery is facing jail time for allegedly helping his client, the ex-Australian Security Intelligence Organisation agent, known as Witness K, reveal information about Australia’s bugging of East Timor’s government during commercial negotiations to carve up oil and gas resources in the Timor Sea. Connelly, who is part of Timor Sea Justice Forum, attended a number of rallies that morning, which ended at Sydney Town Hall steps where attendees donned cloth hoods to emphasise the repressive nature of the trials of the two defendants. “Australians denounce the extremely secretive nature of these prosecutions. The undue secrecy is not in the interests of national security, but is an attempt to conceal the disgrace of the Australian government’s spying on its impoverished trading partner, Timor-Leste, in 2004,” Connolly said. “Witness K and Bernard Collaery deserve Australia’s highest honours for their courage and ....