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Won’t somebody please think of the ABC journos?

17 February 2020

6:32 PM

17 February 2020

6:32 PM

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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