Your right to know: Media bosses want politicians' power to sign off on prosecutions removed

Katie Burgess
Updated October 22 2019 - 4:33pm, first published 4:00pm
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Attorney-General Christian Porter during Question Time on Tuesday. Picture: Alex Ellinghausen
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Attorney-General Christian Porter during Question Time on Tuesday. Picture: Alex Ellinghausen

Australia's major media outlets have called for Attorney-General Christian Porter's new power to sign off on the prosecution of journalists for exposing government secrets to be revoked, after Prime Minister Scott Morrison declared such decisions should not be "made on the whim of politicians".

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Katie Burgess

Katie Burgess

Federal politics reporter

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