David Mcbride & Prof. James Allan on The Chris Smith Show - 11 April 2024

David McBride discusses the battles of being a whistleblower. Later, Prof. James Allan discusses government spending and immigration in Australia.

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: David McBride is an Australian whistleblower. In 2011 and 2013, he served in Afghanistan as a military lawyer to the Royal Australian Regiment and Australian Special Forces respectively. David made information on war crimes committed by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan available to the ABC. If convicted of the charges against him, David McBride faces many years in prison. X: @MurdochCadell https://www.davidmcbride.com.au/

GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Professor James Allan is the Garrick Professor in Law at The University of Queensland. Before arriving in Australia in February of 2005 he spent 11 years teaching law in New Zealand at the University of Otago and before that lectured law in Hong Kong. Professor Allan is a native born Canadian who practised law in a large Toronto law firm and at the Bar in London before shifting to teaching law.