 We must do this duty, and truly report what he did, so he informed his superiors diligently. These concerns and his fears just fell on deaf ears. They didn't want to hear the guts and the gristle, but as a man of the law, and what he stood for. You ready? Well he knew that he must find the winner. The whistle of honesty, truth and morality. Do it again? He knew that he must find the winner. Government so violent have put him on strike for revealing hard truths to his nation. But the truth cannot die in the face of their lives, and the truth will be his vindication. On his side, the day that he knew. It's the Cossodian life. Thank you so much, all the supporters, thank you to Cossodian. Court room tomorrow. It's going to be a circus, it's going to be a history run, and it's the final clash. People with the truth, the truth for us lies. Let's see if I know who wins. Yes. Do you expect the court room to be open? No, it'll be closed. I'll say it, they don't want to say it's closed, because that makes a book brand, but every time anything happens, I'll say I'll have to close it for this very sacred thing. And it's ridiculous, yes. Yes, like what time for canteen or what they have for their lunch. Yes, in the toilets. So are you worried or hopeful? And I'm hopeful that it's all going to turn out eventually. I'm not hopeful about this particular trial. What about the judge? Well, he's very conservative, as they say. So he's unlikely to listen to any of our arguments. He didn't get vertical area, he broke. But maybe he's going to surprise me, we'll see. He seemed a bit worried about looking at handling classified documents. At one point he said that if he mishandled them, he could be put away for 10 years. Yeah, well, I think there's a pretty good chance. He'll sentence me pretty heavily. It's suspicious because he wasn't our judge until the public go. And he was replaced. We had a good judge, and he got replaced. The good judge got replaced by him. So, and everybody knows his thoughts on national security? Yes. So it looks good, but they can try anything. We're not afraid. And the thing I've got up our sleeve is I'm not afraid of jail. And the hell they are. Do you expect the people who've committed these crimes to ever face the same as what you're facing? Oh, of course not. No, of course not. It's actually about the individual. So I'll tell you more about the generals that I won on trial, and they will never, and they don't even have to answer any questions. Now, that must be right. We need to, the biggest crime, the biggest war crime was the war. The fact that it wasn't properly done, there was no plan. That is the biggest problem. And putting a corporal in jail for private is not going to make any difference, but we need to be the generals to answer some hard questions. There were liberal and Labor governments in power when these war crimes were covered up, which is why I would think it's reasonable to infer liberal and Labor combined to defeat the motion by, as it so happens, another whistleblower, Andrew Wilkie, to drop the prosecutions against McBride and Boyle. And this is out in the open. They're not even bothering to hide it. It's so blatant. It seems to me that they have so much contempt for the Australian people that they just expect us to swallow this nonsense. David is facing a very, very unjust situation at the moment. He has been let down by our government. So there's three arms to our government. There's the parliament. They make the laws. Then there's the executive. They administer and implement the laws. That's the ADF and the AFP. And then there's the judiciary. So he made a complaint to the ADF. They gaslit him down. He made a complaint to the AFP. They didn't want to know. He tried to get public immunity, defense, and the government came in and said, no, we're going to not let anyone hear any of the content that is the basis for that. So they let him down there. So now he faces a trial. And I hope that we still believe in the doctrine of separation of powers and the judiciary are going to do the right thing. But this is not an even fight. And if it was about right and wrong, well, David would win without a doubt. But we're in a very crazy world. And we don't know what the jury actually going to get called because there's going to be claims over a lot of evidence. So they might not be told much. And that's what's so scary about this trial. What the government seem to be claiming a lot of the time is that there's all this classified information. That's why parts of the trial might have to be secret. And jury members won't hear it. And what David did was expose the systemic cultural issues within the ADF. And when he exposed them, he exposed the rot at the top. And they didn't want that. So they sent it all off to an inquiry, the Brewerton Inquiry, that picks some low-hanging fruit. And none of those higher up have been responsible. And that is what they're trying to protect in David's trial. And that's why it's so important that we go there. We sit in the court. We bear witness to this injustice. And we say no. And we bring our whistles. And we don't whistle them in court. But we go outside and we blow our whistles for David McGrine. And we stand by. It is a serious business being a whistleblower. I don't regret it. I don't need any sympathy. We're here for justice. I was made for tomorrow. All my experience has brought me. If anybody has to do what someone has to do tomorrow, it is me. One of the things that I saw last week is the beginnings of what will probably happen near there. And it won't surprise anybody here. But sort of mainstream ignoring of what's going on and a certain amount of sort of underhand smear campaign. I'm not the right kind of whistleblower. Oh, I had personal problems or, you know, somehow try to put, I'm just doing it for my own benefit. Do you reckon I'm doing it for my own benefit? Yeah, exactly. But you will get people saying things like that. And if people want to question me, say, read the book, read his book. We know the projectiles go in a consistent pattern. Now, I only ever wanted to join the army, even though my parents were doctors. My father was a whistleblower and in relation to the drug Phyletomide, and he was obviously quite a brave guy. And he had many, many thousands of patients whose children he delivered. He came undone later in his life over some experiments and rabbits, and he made a mistake of not admitting what had gone wrong. But he was a good person. My mother was a doctor. I went to the right schools. I didn't have problems at school. I went to Sydney University. I graduated in law. I didn't set the world on fire, but I graduated. I went to Oxford University not because I was so smart, but because I did a bit of horse training. But again, I finished. I was a boxing champion there. I went to the British military. I was accepted into one of the most prestigious regiments. I tried to join the British essayist. I was a true believer in democracy, and those who defend democracy with force. I came back to Australia, and I joined the Australian Army eventually, after being barristered. You have to pass quite a few behavioural tests to become a barrister. You have to really be above board in everything you do. No, you can't be bankrupt. I don't think you can even be divorced at one stage. It was a very old and worldly sort of profession. So I was a barrister before I joined the Australian Army. I went in as a captain, and I got promoted to major. I got sent to the biggest base in Australia, Townsville, which was a job for someone on the way up. I did a tour in Afghanistan. I got excellent reports, and I did a tour of Afghanistan with the Special Forces, and I got excellent reports. Now, looking at the trajectory of my life, is it really likely that I'm the bad guy, and the government is the good guy? No, it's pathetic, isn't it? It's absolutely pathetic. And you know what? My trump card is that I will go to prison with my head held up high. And even if I have to do 10 years, does anybody here doubt that I will be able to do that with dignity and strength of character? If you compare me and the way I've handled myself to people like General David Hurley, who wouldn't even give evidence to the secret ministry's inquiry, spoke only through his lawyers, signed off on Morrison's secret ministries, got special treatment for his favoured charity, big question marks over that man sitting in a palace while I get ready to go to prison. Now, my haters say, oh, he's not a war crimes whistleblower. No, I'm a command whistleblower. Does anybody here have problems with that? Does anybody here think that's bad, and you don't like me because I actually say the problem is with the generals, not the corpals and privates? I don't think so. You people know that it's not going to make this country better if we put a private soldier in jail and say, oh, there we go, we'll fix that problem. The problem is endemic. The problem is systemic. The problem is with lies in every single part of this government. Robo debt wasn't a coincidence. We saw how government lawyers act. They lie. They lie when the truth would do. And they got caught out in robo debt, but don't think, well, you people know, but this is for the people who are going to see this on video. Robo debt is how government departments run. They think up some tawdry political stunt that is going to get them promoted and they put it into action. And if anybody says it could be illegal, they are the ones who are shunted out. They are the ones who are shut up. PWC. And I want you to think of these things tomorrow and chant them tomorrow, maybe. Robo debt, PWC, the secret ministries, and I'm the one facing prison. We've seen Oliver Schultz suit someone on TV. Someone tried to say to me yesterday, oh, but you don't want SAS soldiers to go to prison. I don't want innocent SAS soldiers to go to prison just to make the media happy. No. But yes, I do think Ben Robertsmith should be on trial, fully enough. And is he on trial? No. How many years is it going to take? 20? It's funny how they acted a bit faster on me than they did on anyone else. It shows you they care more about secrets than they do about crime. As Eddie said, it's not national security another one of the smears is, oh, but surely you must understand that we need to keep some secret secret. Here's a little test for you. Yeah. As Eddie said, do you think the location of the toilets in Tarran Kalmar secret? And yeah, it is secret. Anything to do with the Afghanistan war was classified secret. So when they say, oh, he revealed classified information, that could have been the fact that trooper blogs had a boil on his ass last at a particular date. Anything to do with the operation, whether it was food, boots, toilets, anything in the Afghan theater of operations was classified. So if I release classified information, it could have been the amount of bog rolls we had. It's pathetic. Don't fall for it. It's not about classified information. It's about crime. It's about government trying to hide under that umbrella. Can we trust them? No, we can't trust them. They're going to say everything is classified information. If I'd revealed the Holocaust, they would have said classified information, classified information. Everything is classified information. And you should say to them, what was it? What was the information? You can even give us a summary, because it was usually crimes. It was usually embarrassing. It was usually things they did not want you to know. That's not classified information. That's hiding the truth from the public who have a right to know about it. It's not codes of secret submarines. It's when people at positions of power broke the laws of Australia for their own selfish reasons. Now, that is not something which should be allowed to be kept secret by the government just because they say so. Now, we start tomorrow, and there's a very good chance that I will go to prison. I don't care about that, as I've always said. It's neither here nor there. We need to clean up this country. It's not going to clean up this country if they drop the charges. It's not going to clean up this country if I go to jail, but it will draw attention to the problem. It will make more and more people look, read my book, tell people to read the book. The book pretty much has it, and there'll be another book where I can actually talk about what went on after the book stops. Say to people, is he a bad person? Yes or no? And is he? How does he compare to David Hurley? How does he compare to Ben Robert Smith? How does he compare to the head of PWC? How does he compare to the people that ran RoboDead? Why is he the one we're going to put in jail? With all the things that have happened, weapons of mass destruction, Abu Ghraib, collateral murder, none of those people have faced jail. You know, so say to people, you are sort of my agent. Get out there when people try to put me down, when people try to ignore this, as not being the biggest show in town over the next three weeks. Say, look it is, the biggest show in town. There's a bit of a dog fight, we always like to see that. Lucky it's not Jake, for once. He might lose his special status as an assistant dog. Hopefully he'll say help with provocation and it might have been a government agent dog. Anyway, I've been going on too long, but I want you to remember, I always want you to thank you. Yes, it's not a huge crowd here today, but it's huge in my heart. You are part of my family. You are the people who have kept me alive. I was on death's door a few years ago because I couldn't get, I saw journalists, as Eddie said. I saw the most famous journalists in Australia. I saw the police first. And I even forget that myself because I've become so disillusioned. And then I get criticized for going on, doing a YouTube channel. And people say, oh well, you don't look very well on your YouTube channel. How well would you be if everything you believed didn't turn out to be a lie? And the famous investigative journalists wouldn't help you. And no one really seemed to care that much. Yeah, exactly, you care. You care. And I feel so strong. I really feel like it locked me up and pulled me away. And you guys know this, but because it's an unlimited sentence that I face, and while we don't have the death penalty in this country, if they did change it, they would be able to execute me. Now, people say that I'm nuts and everything. Well, I was a soldier and I signed on for what I believed in. But if they said to me, you either back down or we will execute you, everyone here knows I would say, fucking, let's do it. Because you're either right or you're not. And I will not back down. I will not back down because of smears. I will not back down because of threats. Even though I've got two young children, you have to set an example. And we have made our peace. I'm almost 60 years old. I've had a really good life. I couldn't really, you know, I couldn't complain. And standing up for what is right is something which you can be very, very happy about. And so people often ask me, would you do it again? Fuck yes, I would do it again and again and again. And I am so grateful to you. I just did my job. And someone just said, I'm going to steal her phrase. I did just do my job initially. Now I may be a hero, but the government have made me a hero and they hate that. They hate to see us laughing. They hate to see us blowing our whistles. They hate to see us having a good time because I can tell you the dweebs who hate me, like Mike Pazulo and the other, anyone else is like talking out the side of their mouth, saying, oh, he's not really, he is as easy. They hate the fact that we hold our heads up high and we face what we face. And we might be a tiny minority, but in 10 years, 20 years time, everyone is going to pretend that they were here in Glee Park today.