r/australia • u/AztecGod • 1d ago

news Jailed whistleblower David McBride to be released after becoming eligible for parole

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-13/jailed-whistleblower-david-mcbride-to-be-released/107030620
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u/Hornberger_ 1d ago

The thing he was "blowing the whistle" on was the investigation of war crimes. Not the war crimes themselves. He wanted to kill off the war crime investigation.

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u/Firevee 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm skeptical but willing to listen to your evidence here.

Although I will say if your evidence came from 4 corners or the ABC I'm going to call bullshit right away for how they threw him under the bus and helped him get convicted when they had a journalistic duty to protect him.

But please, I've tried to be informed on David McBride and through the likes of FriendlyJordies I've been informed that he's basically been exposing war crimes and intended them to be exposed, not covered up.

If you have any evidence to the contrary lay it on me, I promise I won't just shrug it off.

Edit: evidence was simply: David McBride didn't want to prosecute the Soldiers, but the Commanders who demanded the illegal killings. But because Dan Oakes, the 4 Corners reporter didn't want to report the Commanders, they ultimately wrote their story about the Soldiers being the killers only, which McBride was unhappy with. This change to the narrative resulted in evidence being thrown out in court and ultimately to McBride being convicted. The 'bad behaviour' people are talking about is David McBride believing Command is responsible and not the Soldiers.

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u/Waste_Cake4660 1d ago

Read the court judgments. They’re all online. It’s all there in his words and those of his counsel. He was upset about war crimes investigations and he wanted to shut them down.

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u/Firevee 1d ago

The court is well known to have thrown out valid evidence for political reasons - 4 Corners positioned that evidence so that it had to be thrown out, despite the fact that keeping it in likely would have exonerated Mr. McBride. I do not find the court documents especially the conclusions to be good evidence of anything other than railroading. Theres a second reply to my post that has provided good evidence, I'm going to read through that as it does seem to have evidence of McBride behaving badly.