The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed concern at Australia’s attempt to force journalists to reveal their sources – an act that contravenes a fundamental journalistic right. Five Australian journalists – Fairfax Media reporters Adele Ferguson, Richard Baker, Nick McKenzie and Philip Dorling and The West Australian’s Steve Pennells – were served subpoenas last month […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed a recent move in Australia dropping proposed legal reforms that would have had serious consequences for press freedom in the country. Following hefty criticism by local and international media and press freedom groups, Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s government on March 21 withdrew proposals that, among other provisions, would […]

Joel Fitzgibbon, the government’s chief whip, called for stronger privacy laws and greater government regulation in an effort to raise media standards, after a news channel had knowingly broadcast false allegations made against Labor MP Craig Thomson. The scandal involving a prostitute had been reported by Channel Nine, despite the woman’s recanting of her own […]

His Excellency Paul Keating Prime Minister of Australia Parliament House Canberra, ACT 2600 Australia Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) protests most strongly at the conviction on 8 September 1993 of Ms. Deborah Cornwall, a journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald. We are informed that Ms. Cornwall was given a suspended sentence of two […]