Australia's Right to Know is a coalition of Australia's leading media organisations and industry groups, formed more than a decade ago to protect the Australian public's right to know.You have a right to know what the governments you elect are doing in your name. But in Australia today, the media is prevented from informing you, people who speak out are penalised and journalism that shines a light on matters you deserve to know about is criminalised. This needs to change.
You deserve the truth about decisions, mistakes and wrongdoing that happen behind closed doors. Australians expect that we live in a country where powerful people are held accountable for their actions, and that those who speak out are not punished. The media plays a vital role in telling the public what’s really going on. But journalists and whistleblowers in Australia live in fear of criminal charges, police raids and damaging court battles that threaten their professional careers and personal freedom.
Australia is not China!!! Defend free speech and press freedom at all costs!!!
Who cares, the media dont hold the powerful to account anyway. Look at all the stuff the coalition have gotten away with the past 6 years.
I want 2 know more, what happens 2 animals & how they are treated & effect of animal products on our bodies. Preventative medicine docs say there is more than 7000 pieces of research saying coronary heart disease, certain cancers, obesity & diabetes type 2 etc can be reversed .
Say the leftists with a byline.
Good in principle. Wld be more supportive if media wasn't so often just regurgitate whatever obfuscation/spin politicians/influential people spout & actually held them to account
What a shame you put them in power. Try telling the truth for a change.
This is wonderful
The Australian media playing with their genitals again. Where were they when their leader Alan Jones was saying what ever he liked to make news. Our laws, the laws the public live by made Jones accountable. The media as arrogant as they are, must live within the law, our laws.
You are childish
Disappointing that SMH don’t take religious freedoms as seriously as press freedom. Both threaten democracy. Irony, hipocrsy, or just self centered journalistic narrow mindedness? What’s worse government telling people what they can believe or the press not able to report it?
SMH editors should have been loudly demanding freedom for Julian ASSANGE for the past 9 years.
maybe you guys shouldn’t have worked so hard to help elect the government who is working to take away those freedoms then?
Report mategate and we can talk about supporting you until then.....not interested!
It isn't just journalism. In 1974 I had money extorted out of me at school. I recently requested the documents. Every page of the Children's Court proceedings was redacted. I was told that Children's Court proceedings are forever secret even though the case involved me.
Yep and we need more spy’s in journalism to tell us what the journalists are up to and where they get their information from, not just tell a story say it’s a whistle blower and everyone shuts their mouths and believes.
9NewsSyd The American Empire run your country in every way that matters. Get a clue your government is crawling with CIA.
Don’t ever believe that Whistleblowers are safe in Australia. The government will do anything they can in ANY career to make the accuser appear to be a liar&companies, government or not, get away with effectively hanging staff by a noose, until some die by suicide& MentalHealth
mategate
Here are some of the greatest hits from our Banking mates with Government Help! RightToKnow
We the PUBLIC have a right to see those behaving in this manner and authorising such behaviour to face trial and suffer the consequences Enough is enough Stop corruption RightToKnow
First the media came for the First Australians then the asylum seekers and refugees then they came for the unemployed and disabled, then when the government came for them, they spoke up before there was no one left to speak for them auspol
You journos think too highly of yourselves. Publish confidential information at your own risk of prosecution. You have blood on your hands if you leak information that puts our defence forces in danger or weakens public safety
Yes this need to change
I agree. I also understand the importance of reducting sensitive documents but that’s not the same as criminalise journalists for speaking out. Video is badly made as it sent the wrong message
Dont worry you wont be accused of journalism any time soon, you're safe
The Government has been unconstitutional since the signing of the Lima agreement.
I don’t expect to hear any actual journalism from you lot anymore
SteveRezdo Then start asking questions about the lack of economic policy the corruption of Paladin Gladys Liu Angus Taylor the bizarre people in ScottMorrisonMP inner circle mategate Houston FFS do your job and the public might support you.
WeThePeople also have a right to know the Truth/Facts+ Take Antitrust Action on👇 Some MSM 4: Misleading OPINIONS/Polls/Smears/FalseNarrative$ Lies/Fact Omission/Political Bias& Anti-Trump/Scomo/Leaders WW?🤔 MSM Deception$Prevent Clear View of Truth?
WeThePeople also have a right to know the Truth/Facts+ Take Antitrust Action on👇 Some MSM 4: Misleading OPINIONS/Polls/Smears/FalseNarrative$ Lies/Fact Omission/Political Bias& Anti-Trump/Scomo/Leaders WW?🤔 MSM Deception$Prevent Clear View of Truth?
farrm51 farrm51 i'll only support you guys is if newscorp campaigns for the rights of all people, not just itself. that includes refugees, people on newstart instead of punching down until then, let your journos go to jail.
swrighteconomy As long as my investment property is going up I dont give rats arse, that is Australian attitude
Name one, just one journalist in Australia that has been made a criminal. You can’t because this is a beat up and totally unfounded.
Well, the State must protect its secrets Comrade
mcxl Yet every time new draconian legislation is passed you write fawning thinkpieces about how it's a tactical masterstroke and then another piece about the Dangerous Chinese. What do you expect, you incredulous twits?
It's not just our right to know, governments have an obligation to justify their actions to those who put them there.
The SMH is full of ideological nutters. The Murdoch media no better. Where do I get objective and fairminded news in Australia? No where. No where. I no longer ALP, the Greens are slimey green now Bob has Left, and Morrison is essentially a PR man and we cannot trust them can we?
People revealing classified information are being penalised haha sorry
MorpheusBeing That’s rich - didn’t you raise funds for NLPCorruption?
9NewsGoldCoast Sorry, the public lost trust in media telling the truth years ago. There's a reason you are called Fake News and the enemy of the people. You're no better than these crooked politicians and corporations. The large majority don't trust you, so why should we care about this crap?
What about protecting the whistle blowers as well!
Time to wake up Australia! Chinese Yuan is buying & Politicians are selling .... perhaps eventually your freedom & way of life.
The LNP have successfully turned Australia into a POLICE STATE You voted for it
The MSM (you) have been complicit by accepting this gov secrecy for so long, until now that it directly affects YOU. About time you, Murdoch journos and others stop covering up and did your job.
How can you, , theage, channel9 be trusted to hold any government to account especially this LNP government on behalf of which you fundraise? How can you speak truth to power when you serve that very same power? auspol NotIndependent
People need to go do some research. You blame the LNP. In 2013 Labour/Greens went to introduce the most draconian media laws this country hss seen. The Greens are trying to shut down any media that counters their left wing narrative.
The government banned climbing ayersrock despite it breaching the lease agreement, breaching World Heritage agreement, contradicting the views of past owners who supported visitors climbing, and simply believed the propaganda from Parks Australia doyourjob weakkneedmedia
Ah yes Australia a veritable dictatorship....ooo quelle horreur won't someone think of mah freedomz!
So it's okay to steal confidential information by your theory?
Fake & false news from SMH as usual
Don’t share classified information it is that simple
The insipid journos ARE THE PROBLEM for their failure to offer genuine content. Look at the Americans, to see the diatribe of corrupt journos ... TRY CNN NYT more
We're not seeing much of that right to know what the Government is doing because you're ignoring stories. Don't want to upset the corporate donors or the very senior Liberal Party member that's your chairman...
Report on the muddled interests of the current PM then.
Didn't lift a finger with the metadata retention laws or AABill last year. Now it's all of a sudden a problem. Why should the public feel any sympathy for your 'journalists'? It's not like you're holding the gov't to account anyway.
Channel Nine via their Fairfax proxy is course describing their systemic supression of any dissent against the incompetent LNP government, who in turn in a proxy for Murdoch.
Translated “ because Labor lost again we must attack the current government with fake news “
WittaTwitta Then start holding the government to account. Since the takeover of Fairfax by the Peter Costello headed Nine Entertainment there has been a noticeable rise in puff pieces and hagiography by the SMH and the Age. Oh, and the verbatim printing of government media releases as 'news'
FascistAUSTRALIA BUT YOU HELPED THEM
Absolutely. Big Ag committing horrific animal abuse in live animal export and our shit govt will do nothing because Kuwait and Qatar have them by the gonads.
“You have a right to know what the governments you elect are doing in your name.” No we don’t, they’ve been spying on us for years and you never gave a shit. Now it’s impacting “journalists” the start to cry.
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