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.

Journalists and security agencies need to talk to each other

March 17, 2021

AJF’s idea for a National Working Group is designed to help maintain the integrity of Australia's security, while protecting press freedom.

Journalists face record levels of persecution

March 8, 2021

The major events of the last few years have seen a steep rise in the number of journalists' jailed, murdered, arrested and censored around the world.

AJF calls for Thein Zaw's immediate release

February 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.