Parliamentary press freedom inquiry: letting the fox guard the henhouse
- Written by Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
The government has approved a parliamentary inquiry into press freedom – a step the major media organisations have dismissed as unnecessary.Bianca De Marchi/AAP
Fox guarding the henhouse; poacher in charge of the game-keeping. Choose your idiom, but appointing the parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security to inquire into...
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