The AJF Speaks at the Senate Inquiry into Secrecy Legislation Reforms

June 5, 2026

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The federal government’s complex reform package seeks to repeal or remove criminal penalties from roughly 300 lower-level secrecy provisions, replacing them with a single general secrecy offence, while also changing the threshold for what counts as a breach of secrecy.

AJF joins RSF call for release of Pham Doan Trang

April 12, 2021

The AJF joins Reporters Sans Frontiers' call for the immediate release of independent Vietnamese journalist Pham Doan Trang.

Peter Wilkinson on protections for journalists

April 9, 2021

AJF's Chair Peter Wilkinson is interviewed by The Informer's George Donikian on the protections the AJF is calling for to support the public's right to know in our legal code.

AJF welcomes Thein Zaw's release

March 28, 2021

The AJF joins The Committee to Protect Journalists' call for the immediate release of the AP's Thein Zaw who, arrested in Yangon whilst covering the ongoing conflict in Myanmar, has now been in custody since Saturday 27th February, 2021.