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Vital community issues within Australia, that travel from community to parliament or in the other direction, but always including how they are playing…As World Press Freedom Day is marked, it gives us a convenient moment to ask what is the state of that freedom in Australia?
In 2014, Australian journalist Peter Greste was given a seven-year jail sentence for allegations of 'airing false news' as a reporter for al-Jazeera in Egypt.
His story captured the attention of the nation and became a living reminder of the importance of press freedom.
But things haven't substantially improved in the years since.
Featured: Prof. Peter Greste (Professor of Journalism at Macquarie University, former foreign correspondent for BBC, al-Jazeera, Reuters), Claire Stuchbery (LINA CEO)
Presenter - Noah Secomb
Producer - Martin Davies
In the public interest: a journalism, accountability and democracy townhall
https://events.humanitix.com/in-the-public-interest
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