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...