Court ruling against ABC highlights the enormous deficiency in laws protecting journalists' sources
- Written by Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
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The federal court’s rejection of the ABC case against the Australian Federal Police raid on its Sydney headquarters in June 2019 reveals two issues of great importance to freedom of the press in Australia:
the laws criminalising journalism are working exactly as the government intended, and
the legal protections for...