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And now a coalition of media groups, 'Australia's Right to Know Coalition', is fronting the parliamentary intelligence committee's inquiry on press freedom. That includes an ABC investigative journo, the head of the media union, and representatives from News Corp and Nine.

News Corp corporate affairs exec Campbell Reid says the culture of government openness has been slowly eroded.

Liberal senator David Fawcett asks if he agrees the raids on a journos home were searches and not raids. Reid: "No. If it looks like a raid and feels like a raid, then it's probably a raid."

This goes back to what the AFP told the committee earlier, where they argued they don't do raids they "execute search warrants".

News Corp's Reid says his blood ran cold when he heard Home Affairs didn't know how many warrants were out on journalists, he'd assumed there'd be only a handful. "The answer seems to suggest otherwise."

Nine's regulatory affairs director Clare Gill: "I think the fact that they don't track the number [of warrants] is a cultural issue." She says if critical thought was being used, then they would track the number of warrants on journos.

Senator Abetz is asking if journos still get copyright payments, couple of heads shaking there. We got a flat copyright payment at the Canberra Times. #JoinYourUnion.

I'm trying to get at what Abetz was getting at there.