In a salient display of a free press and journalistic independence, the Australian government-owned national broadcaster has taken the Australian government’s Federal Police to court to block them reading documents seized when officers executed a search warrant.
Who grants search warrants? Is it the prime minister, any elected official or bureaucrat in their employ? No.
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