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Civil wrongs
Australian civil liberties are under attack, and it is incumbent on all of us to pay attention
Labor probably thought this would be a week where they got some credit for plans to improve press freedoms – even if they did face ongoing criticism over their patchy record on whistleblowers.
- Rachel Withers
- The Monthly
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus’s response to the long-awaited review proposed journalists be protected from prosecution for publishing classified information, while removing criminal liability from 168 of 875 secrecy offences.
It was a “good start”, even if it didn’t go far enough, the Human Rights Law Centre’s Kieran Pender told the ABC.
But it wasn’t…