Four laws that need urgent reform to protect both national security and press freedom
- Written by Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-NDIn a perfect world, Australia would introduce constitutional protections for freedom of the press. But since the chances of that are next to zero, it might be more productive to look instead at what might be done to make the existing web of secrecy laws less repressive.
As a starting point, four laws in...
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