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Australia's secrecy laws include 875 offences. Reforms are welcome but don't go far enough for press

Peter Greste says it's laudable that the government recognises the threats to media freedom embedded in the law, but the answers in the review are more of the same: a set of band aids, rather than a comprehensive cure.

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Laws Must Protect not Punish Whistleblowers: Senator

Rex Patrick calls for an end to the prosecution of former ATO staffer Richard Boyle

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2018 Quills: News Report in Writing

Andrea Hamblin of the Herald Sun won the 2018 News Report in Writing Quill

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Lawyers Lament Politicians Tough Talk on Crime

MPC Election Forum told mandatory sentencing won’t solve violent offending

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"Journalists could go to jail for doing their jobs"

Australian media organisations express concern over proposed national security legislation

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Press freedom is under attack, not least in Australia

The MEAA's Mike Dobbie paints a grim picture of the situation of the media worldwide in the lead-up to the alliance's annual press freedom report.

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Chapter 4. A Woman President

Freda Irving was the club's first woman president. We had no idea of her age, but when she took over in 1978 we discovered she was 75. She had started at The Herald under the patronage of Keith Murdoch in 1926.

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Australian ‘war on journalism': MEAA press freedom report

Inside the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance 2015 press freedom report.

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Legal Update for Journalists - 2013 Press Freedom Report

Melbourne Press Club committee member and senior partner at Minter Ellison, Peter Bartlett, has written a review of events in media law as part of the 2013 Walkley Press Freedom Report. Here is his summary of how media law is developing.

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