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Dutton rejects calls to drop media leaks cases
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has rejected calls to drop legal action against journalists targeted in recent police raids.
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Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has rejected calls to drop legal action against journalists targeted in recent police raids.
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News Corp insists it “remains firmly committed to the people and issues of South Australia”, despite axing the sole remaining reporter in the local bureau of its national broadsheet, The Australian.
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The local government sector is pushing to change an “outdated” state law that sees Adelaide ratepayers pay Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation millions of dollars in compulsory advertising, in a new blow to the media company’s ailing suburban newspaper stable.
Peter Dutton has stressed there’s nothing new about the idea that a journalist can go to jail for publishing top secret government documents, saying the suggestion there should be no penalty goes against “tradition”.
News Corp’s flagship suburban masthead in SA, The City, will stop being printed, while home delivery of the weekly Messenger north of Adelaide will cease from this month amid a broader local restructure at the media company that has already claimed at least 10 journalists’ jobs this month.
Australia Federal Police raids on the ABC and a News Corp journalist over publication of classified material have a chilling effect on public interest journalism. Freedom of the press must be defended in the face of toughened national security laws, writes Rebecca Ananian-Welsh.
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