Louise Beaston says their lives were shattered when her husband was charged after speaking out about the tax office’s pursuit of tax debts from small businesses
, a lawyer who helped reveal Australia’s bugging of ally Timor-Leste during oil and gas negotiations in 2004.
Beaston said their lives had been shattered since 2018 when federal police and tax officers raided their home and again in 2019 when her husband was charged. “Meanwhile we have been stuck in legal quicksand. It has been almost six years since Richard first lodged his public interest disclosure in October 2017, and yet this ordeal continues. All for telling the truth,” she wrote.
“It is hard to put into words and describe the impact this case has had on Richard and I, and our wider family. Every day we face the burden of this prosecution, and our mental and physical health have both been devastated by this nightmare. “Every day we wake up and wonder when this nightmare will end. You have the power to stop this injustice. I plead with you to drop the case and let Richard and I get on with our lives. All Richard ever did was tell the truth.”
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