The prosecutions of a former spy and his lawyer following Australia's bugging of Timor Leste raise critical questions about the independence of our judiciary and the functioning of our democracy.
Of all the attempts at secrecy by successive Australian governments,the prosecution of lawyer Bernard Collaery is chilling.
The royal commission into lawyer turned informer Nicola Gobbo has been granted the power to vary more than 50 gag orders protecting long-held gangland secrets.
The former senator is representing David McBride,who leaked military information that led to allegations Australian soldiers had killed civilians in Afghanistan and the police raid on the ABC.
The move could effectively wipe from the public record the existence of key figures who became underworld informers and helped end Melbourne’s bloody gangland war.
Hundreds of potentially explosive letters that shed light on what the Queen knew in the lead-up to Gough Whitlam's dismissal will be released next month.
Weeks after the High Court ordered the potentially explosive letters be released,the agency holding them won't say when they will be made public.
Andrews government is under fire after it published business case for level crossing removals program with all but one of the 284 pages blanked out.
The AFP is trying to use a law that nobody has ever thought concerned government secrets to criminalise ordinary journalism.
The public doesn't necessarily see politicians'travel spending as evidence of greed.
A military business that tried to censor a government report argues it did not breach parliamentary privilege.