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Police have confirmed they have accessed journalists' communications records to investigate leaks despite the Abbott government's insistence that journalists are not the target of its new data storage laws.

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After the Abbott government relented and agreed to give added protection to journalists under its controversial "data retention" laws, Attorney-General George Brandis insisted the laws were aimed at terrorists, paedophiles and organised criminals, not journalists.

He said Labor's demand that police must get a warrant to access journalists' communications "metadata" – such as the time and origin of phone calls they receive – for any investigation into journalists' sources was unnecessary. He said the government was agreeing only to win Labor's support for the reforms in the Senate.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/probes-of-journalists-communications-records-rare-police-say-20150317-1m1g9d.html
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