The Palaszczuk government proposed a new bill around the reporting of CCC Investigations during election periods that included hefty fines and gaol time for anyone who reported on either allegations or proceedings of an ongoing investigation.
Two weeks later and those laws are now set to be withdrawn, but not before sparking a debate about the relatively precarious position that journalists work from on confidential sources
we talked to UNESCO Chair in Journalism & Communication with the University of Queensland Professor Peter Greste about reporting on the CCC, Shield laws and the difficulties for journalists reporting on governments.
[Image: University of Queensland]
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