You are correct, but so what? She served seven years which is a lot, and this sentence was deemed appropriate by the highest official in the land at the time the sentence was commuted. There are plenty of people with criminal convictions allowed to enter Australia, particularly in cases where there is zero risk of them continuing to offend (she doesn’t have access to classified files, ergo she can’t leak them).

The law under which she was convicted gives no opportunity to argue the grounds of whistleblowing or public interest. It’s a flawed law. If you’re convicted by crap laws that says more about the lawmakers than you. Just ask anyone convicted of gay sex a generation ago.

Morality is far more a judge of character than legality. Chelsea exposed illegal conduct in an immoral war, to the embarrassment of the Bush administration. Not legally defensible but certainly morally defensible.

Are you saying she did the wrong thing by exposing that teh Americans were killing innocent civilians?