Timor-Leste welcomes decision to drop prosecution

Attorney-general Mark Dreyfus has ordered the Commonwealth to drop the prosecution of lawyer Bernard Collaery four years after hew as charged with leaking classified information. Mr Collaery was charged in 2018 for allegedly helping his client, an ex-spy know as Witness K, to reveal details of an alleged Australian spying mission in Tomor-Leste. President of Timore-Leste Jose-Ramos Horta says the decision closes a bitter chapter in his country's relationship with Australia.