Australia: second raid on home by police investigating leaks to media

Reporters Without Borders

30.09 - Australia : second raid on home by police investigating leaks to media

Six federal police officers from Canberra searched the home of a resident of Gold Coast, Queensland, on 25 September in an attempt to identify the source of a leak for a report in The Australian daily newspaper about the impact for the public of a cut in the budget of a governmental agency responsible for broadcasting. "What we have here is a report about a budget cut and one that has not been denied," the Australia’s Right to Know media coalition said. "What we get appears to be the intervention of the police simply because the report was embarrassing politically."

Australia: Federal police violate confidentiality of reporter’s sources by raiding his home

Reporters sans frontières - Australia

"Reporters Without Borders is very disturbed by this week’s raid on the Canberra home of Philip Dorling, a reporter for the Canberra Times daily, by federal police seeking classified defence documents cited in a story reporting that close allies Japan and South Korea were priority targets for Australia’s spies as well as countries such as China and North Korea."