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The High Court has found a warrant used by federal police to raid a journalist’s home after reporting secret plans to extend government spying powers was invalid, and ordered that it be quashed.
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Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw has admitted raids on journalists could have been handled better.
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Six journalists have been targeted in a single year by federal police trying to discover their sources by investigating their telecommunications data.
Federal Labor is urging Home Affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo to show more respect for the media after he lashed out at the person behind a top-secret leak to a journalist, saying the whistleblower should go to jail.
Australia must accept that its drug policies have failed and pill testing must be introduced to save young lives, the nation’s former top cop says.
Press freedom is again in the spotlight after fresh revelations federal police sought finger and palm prints of two ABC journalists under investigation over leaked documents.
