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Sydney man jailed for 3.5 years over fake defence reports prepared for Chinese spies (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah this is wild to me. Also if there are any laws ignorance should be a defense of it's esoteric state conflict bullshit.

I'd like to see the full judgement but I do wonder if this will be knocked back on appeal.

The idea that doing a job badly/scamming some people becomes some federal offense because you "should have known" they were spies (also lol, who fucking cares if it's public info. Spy on lmao) is concerning.

Also:

Ultimately, Smith ruled it was important to deter the wider community from being wooed into compromising Australia’s national security.

Makes my skin crawl. Stringing someone up to "send a message" is the antithesis of justice, which should only be concerned with restittuion for the harmful acts of the accused and their reformation.