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In a similar vein, Phillip Ruddock waived jurisdiction in a case where two US marines were charged with attempted murder after they allegedly attacked and
glassed a Townsville man, under the guise that "the US marines would face harsher sentences in a US military court than in the Australian courts."
See
here for the full story of how this Australian was treated with less rights by his own government than foreign soldiers were afforded.
Bill Leak's cartoon in The Australian, last year, says it all.
(thanks john for hosting)