As an often on-the-nose industry,one of the major challenges we face is convincing the public that protections for journalists and whistleblowers are worth fighting for.
Our freedom of information regime is moribund,destroyed by political cynicism and an obsession with secrets. It can and must be fixed for the sake of our democracy.
Johnson Honimae,the national broadcaster’s chief executive,said the news outlet had taken “critical calls” from the PM’s office but was operating normally.
Lynne O’Donnell,who has reported on and off from Afghanistan for about two decades,says she was detained by the Taliban and forced to deny her reporting.
Taliban intelligence officials threatened an Australian journalist with jail unless she publicly apologised for reporting on alleged abuses by the group,she has said.
Decorated former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith was effectively convicted of war crimes by three newspapers without a trial,his defamation case has been told.
For most of the 11 years Stella Assange has been involved with the Wikileaks founder he has been in some form of captivity. His extradition to the US is the latest setback in her relationship.
The Australian faces 17 charges of espionage and one charge of computer misuse if extradited to the United States.
The Chinese president arrives in Hong Kong to cement Beijing’s control and farewell CEO Carrie Lam. But he’ll have to live with the virus while there.
Rwanda’s leading opposition figure said the Commonwealth had made a mockery of itself by allowing the president to whitewash his crackdown on political opposition.
Its forces could soon seize the strategically important cities of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk and control of the Luhansk region.