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Raid on ABC puts Australian press freedom at risk
Index on Censorship condemns the raid by Australian federal police on the offices of public broadcaster ABC over a 2017 article it ran in on operations of Australian special forces in Afghanistan. The...
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Freedom and the fourth estate
The recent AFP raids in Australia highlighted that challenges to media freedom are not limited to authoritarian countries. It has been reported that since 9/11, Australia has seen the introduction...
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Index urges the Australian government to reconsider its decision to refuse a...
Journalism award-winning journalist Mimi Mefo (Photo: Elina Kansikas for Index on Censorship) Mimi Mefo, winner of this year’s Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award, is due to give a keynote...
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Contents – Climate of fear: The silencing of the planet’s indigenous peoples
The Autumn issue of Index magazine focuses on the struggle for environmental justice by indigenous campaigners. Anticipating the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), in Glasgow, in...
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Climate of fear: The silencing of the planet’s indigenous peoples
FEATURING Mikhail KhodorkovskyDissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky Dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky is founder of the Justice for Journalists Foundation. Close John SweeneyJournalist John Sweeney Journalist...
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Respect for tradition: Australia’s selective listening on environment issues
Manyallaluk hunters in Australia's Northern Territory. Photo: Prisma by Dukas Presseagentur GmbH / Alamy The bushfires that tore across Australia in the summer of 2019-20 left in their wake 18 million...
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New South Wales’ chilling landscape for environmental protest
Environmental protesters including Deanna "Violet" Coco blockade the Sydney Harbour Bridge in March 2022 Ever since environmental activist Deanna “Violet” Coco was handed down a 15-month sentence...
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Major new global free expression index sees UK ranking stumble across...
A major new global ranking index tracking the state of free expression published today (Wednesday, 25 January) by Index on Censorship sees the UK ranked as only “partially open” in every key area...
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In an era dominated by the instantaneous dissemination of information, the role of all forms of media, traditional and social, in shaping public perception is unparalleled. However, as we navigate this...
View ArticleNew Assange film hopes to spur action
As Julian Assange awaits the verdict of his final court appeal against his extradition to the USA, where he faces a maximum sentence of 175 years in prison under the Espionage Act for publishing...
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