Parliamentary intelligence committee's inquiry on press freedom is on again today, with reps from the Australian Federal Police up first.
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Shadow Home Affairs minister Kristina Keneally is asking why a journo was raided when they wrote a story based off leaked info the govt "didn't like", but the docs leaked to the Australian for a story on the medivac bill didn't even warrant a phone call to the journo.
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At the time the ASIO boss Duncan Lewis was critical of the leak behind this yarn:https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/immigration/phelps-medivac-bill-a-national-security-risk-asio-warns/news-story/87f684a1b3d38b2f08797abb3c47dce2 …
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AFP has just gotten into a semantic argument about "raids". They don't raid homes, they execute search warrants.
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AFP said they decided not to investigate the leak behind Simon Benson's story on the medivac bill, so didn't conduct any interviews.
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