The Conversation

Media raids raise questions about AFP's power and weak protection for journalists and whistleblowers

Written by Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne

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In their raids on media organisations, journalists and whistleblowers, the Australian Federal Police have shown themselves to be the tool of a secretive, ruthless and vindictive executive government.

Secretive because the extensive web of laws passed under the rubric of national security, on top of the secrecy...

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