Urgent resolutions moved by MEAA regarding the US indictments against Julian Assange (Urgent Resolution One), and the Australian Federal Police raids on the home of a News Corporation journalists and the offices of the ABC (Urgent Resolution Five) – carried at the International Federation of Journalists’ 30th World Congress at Tunis, June 11-14 2019.
...Two raids by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) on journalists and media organisations within the last 24 hours represent a disturbing attempt to intimidate legitimate news journalism that is in the public interest
This morning’s raid by Federal Police on the home of a respected Canberra Press Gallery journalist is an outrageous attack on press freedom that seeks to punish a journalist for reporting a legitimate news story that was clearly in the public interest.
MEAA members at the ABC have called on their leadership to address allegations of editorial interference by Adani.
MEAA condemns News Corp Australia’s announcement that it will cut 55 editorial positions from its mastheads around the country, with almost a third of the cuts to be made to Victorian newsrooms.
