The Australian Federal Police raids on journalists’ homes and media offices have shown the extent to which press freedom has been curbed in Australia to suppress reporting of national security matters.
The following release is an article by Robert Barwick in the 29 May 2019 Australian Alert Service, the weekly magazine of the Citizens Electoral Council.
Unbeknownst to most Australians, our country in recent years has been leading the world in the adoption of Stasi-like surveillance and spying laws which threaten basic human freedoms.
The admission by the UK’s chemical weapons lab that it can’t verify the source of the alleged nerve agent blamed for poisoning Sergei and Yulia Skripal means that the Australian government expelled Russian diplomats on false information.
Russia expert and former diplomat and intelligence official Kyle Wilson claimed to Patricia Karvelas on the 27 March Radio National Drive program that Russian diplomats addressing a 2015 Citizens Electoral Council conference was an instance of Rus
