One Nation is turning law into loyalty

Dear Editor,

Hastie versus One Nation is being sold as politics, but CONTACT readers should hear something louder.

It puts two warriors, law and mateship in the same hard light.

Hastie says he gave evidence under subpoena in the Ben Roberts-Smith matter. One Nation’s political play is to recast that legal duty as deserting his mates.

That is dangerous.

Mateship matters. So does the code carried by those who served. But neither can mean treating sworn evidence as betrayal, or pretending a courtroom is optional when the person involved wore the same uniform.

A military culture that forgets lawful discipline in favour of tribal loyalty is not defending the brotherhood. It is weakening it.

Hastie’s own war talk does not help. It turns a rule-of-law issue into the theatre One Nation wants.

Real warrior culture should be bigger than barracking.

I expand on this argument at markcroxford.net/read

Regards,

Mark Croxford
20-year Navy veteran

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