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| Subject: The good: OZschwitz Senator lashes attempt to 'shut down' media and whistleblowers Sat Jun 08, 2019 6:48 pm | |
| Federal police raids on Australian media organisations will muzzle whistleblowers in the private and public sectors, a key crossbench senator says, as he ramps up calls for public-interest protections.
Centre Alliance senator Rex Patrick, on whom the Coalition could be forced to rely to get its policies through Parliament, said raids last week on the ABC and the apartment of News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst were an attempt by the government to shut down the "third arm" of transparency.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/senator-lashes-attempt-to-shut-down-media-and-whistleblowers-20190608-p51vts.html |
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