I don't necessarily disagree with him, but the ABC report doesn't mention that Allan Kessing was sacked from Customs, prosecuted and convicted under section 70 of the Crimes Act. He was found guilty of leaking highly protected Customs reports to the Australian newspaper and was probably lucky to escape jail.
The fallout from the leak led to the Wheeler report and a lot of bad publicity for the government, which it thoroughly deserved. At the time many public servants (myself included) thought that if the government had spent as much time hunting down drug smugglers as they did hunting down Kessing, he wouldn't have needed to leak the reports in the first place.
He is certainly a former Customs officer, but I just find it odd that the ABC quotes him as an ordinary ex officer and doesn't mention the unusual circumstances and big controversy that led to him being 'ex'.
