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.


How will Meta’s refusal to pay for news affect Australian journalism – and our democracy?
March 15, 2024
When we speak of media freedom, we generally mean it in terms of freedom from unnecessary legal restrictions, so journalists and their sources are not threatened with prosecution for exposing the misdeeds of governments.
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