Australian media unite to demand government change laws after AFP raids

ABC, News Corp and Nine call for legislation to protect journalists and whistleblowers, saying a free press must be ‘entrenched in law’

Media executives have united to call on the government to amend a range of laws to protect journalists and whistleblowers after a series of widely condemned raids on media organisations by the Australian federal police.

The country’s three biggest media organisations – the ABC, News Corp and Nine – will call for legislative change in speeches at the National Press Club on Wednesday.

Continue reading...

from The Guardian https://ift.tt/31WpvYk
via
0 Comments