Australia went to war in Afghanistan without a clear policy on how to deal with enemy detainees, secret papers reveal.
When a policy was adopted, the then chief of the Defence Force, Admiral Chris Barrie, expressed reservations about the legality of the agreed approach.
The documents also show another former Defence Force chief, General Peter Cosgrove, informed the Howard government of the death of an Iranian man captured by Australian troops in 2003, but the Australian public was never told.
Photo credit: (ADF, Corporal Neil Ruskin)