I'm going to hold myself back from writing a long post about Rupert Murdoch and Newscorp in Australia. Generally Australia is pretty free, even without explicit freedom of speech. The military is very competent and retrained in its actions, however in my life I've only seen an increase in nationalism related to the military. The right wing love to drape themselves in the flag and related militaria. I think the afghan war crimes by special forces should be of genuine public interest to Australians. And I think the application of Top Secret to government documents about these matters is the real problem. Its a problem for the public and democracy when you can use something like a Classification as way to cover up misdeeds.

I feel sorry for the guy going down for the leaks.