Whistleblower Diaries #3: Antony Loewenstein with Greg Barns SC

An exclusive Australian online conversation.
Antony Loewenstein is one of Australia's most consequential independent journalists. His Walkley Award-winning book The Palestine Laboratory exposed how Israel tests weapons and surveillance technology on Palestinians, then exports the tools of repression to the world. His Al Jazeera documentary Germany's Israel Obsession revealed how Germany's response to antisemitism has become a mechanism for silencing legitimate criticism of Israel. He co-founded Declassified Australia to investigate secrets the Australian government would rather you did not know.

In conversation with Greg Barns SC, Loewenstein draws the line from the arms industry to Palestine, from Silicon Valley's embrace of military power to the global crackdown on dissent. At a time when speaking plainly about state violence carries professional, legal, and personal consequences, his work asks the question that matters most: who benefits when the truth becomes dangerous?

Greg Barns SC is a barrister and one of Australia's leading voices on civil liberties and the rule of law. He will press Loewenstein on the arms trade, Palestine, surveillance capitalism, and what it costs to practise free speech in 2026. Live audience Q&A included.

About Whistleblower Diaries
This is the third instalment of a new exclusive series from the Information Rights Project. We bring the world's most consequential truth-tellers into direct conversation with Australian audiences.