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right toknow: MEAA withMEAA The front page of every daily newspaper has been redacted in a united campaign for the Right ToKnow, according to The Guardian. Find out more https //t.co/tv5cIcedle pressfreedom 20, 2019 It also comes as Witness K and his lawyer, Bernard Collaery, are facing jail time for revealing that the Australian Secret Intelligence Service bugged the office of Timor-Leste officials during a multimillion dollar resource negotiation in 2004, and while Australian Tax Office whistleblower Richard Boyle is facing a maximum 161 years in prison for revealing that the ATO was abusing its powers. The campaign, by the Australia's Right to Know Coalition, follows raids on the ABC's Sydney headquarters and the home of a News Corp journalist in June, the legality of which is being challenged in the high court. Concrete action rather than nice words are needed on press freedom Read more Guardian Australia has joined the campaign. It also calls for a new regime to limit which documents can be stamped as secret. It has called for the right to challenge government applications for warrants against journalists, exemptions for journalists to laws that would see them jailed for doing their job, legislated protections for public sector whistleblowers, and reforms to both freedom of information and defamation laws. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.