The Greens responded to the AFP raid on the home of an Australian Signals Directorate intelligence officer today:
\nGreens Spokesperson for Media and Communications and Chair of the Senate Inquiry into Press Freedoms and Whistleblower Protections Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said:
\n\u201cToday\u2019s raid by the AFP on an intelligence officer is very concerning. The intimidation of truth tellers by this government is alarming.
\n\u201cJournalism and the protection of whistleblowers are essential pillars of democracy.
\n\u201cFirst the AFP raided the journalists, now they are raiding public servants.
\n\u201cThe Government should be upfront about whether today\u2019s raid is in relation to the earlier raids on a News Corp journalist who exposed the Government\u2019s draconian plan to allow the Australian Signals Directorate to spy on Australians.
\n\u201cThe Senate Inquiry into press freedoms and whistleblowers is increasingly urgent, and will consider protections for public sector employees who disclose sensitive and classified information.\u201d
\nGreens Spokesperson for Justice Senator Nick McKim said:
\n\u201cThese raids are designed to intimidate potential public interest whistle blowers.\u201d
\n\u201cThis is the stuff of a police state, not a democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Greens responded to the AFP raid on the home of an Australian Signals Directorate intelligence officer today: Greens Spokesperson for Media and Communications and Chair of the Senate Inquiry into Press Freedoms and Whistleblower Protections Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said: \u201cToday\u2019s raid by the AFP on an intelligence officer is very concerning. The intimidation of … Continue reading “Greens response to AFP raids”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}