Strong media voices speak up about freedom issues including the backsliding on Freedom of information.
Independently of Right to Know day or week - now there's a missed opportunity - Australian media organisations and journalists are finding new strong voice about freedom of speech, press freedom and related issues, decrying poor efforts to speak up as the wave of national security laws washed through and freedom of information went backwards in the last few years. The chair of the Australian Press Council Professor David Weisbrot said laws proposed as a counterterrorism measure threatened the future of investigative journalism and must be revisited. He told The Australian the council had an important advocacy role, a role for a long time left to the publishers: “My view is that the issues are so central to all of our constituency, our readers and the newspapers, that we need to be involved and we can do that because if The Australian or the Tele or the Herald argues about these things, many people will see that as self-interested, whereas The Press Council, when we speak ...
