Parliamentary intelligence committee's inquiry on press freedom has heard from a bunch of top intelligence experts this arvo, they've warned the debate around a free press and national security has become "oversimplified".
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Jumping around a bit here (and realise this all a bit inside baseball) but Shoebridge said he hears spooks saying a journo can't report X because they don't know the history and context. "And I think, 'Why is that?'"
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Shoebridge also critical of the govt being "country agnostic" as in not naming culprits of espionage, saying it doesn't pass the pub test. But media doesn't have to worry about the diplomatic implications. (Also, you can't defame a country.) We're talking about China, folks.
