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NT Government’s ‘dangerous’ ban on press outlet should be reversed, Peter Greste says
Australia’s most prominent media freedom advocate says the Northern Territory Government “has set a dangerous precedent” with its continued press ban on one news organisation.
Key points:
- The NT Government has blacklisted one news outlet from government communications
- Peter Greste has urged the NT Government to be “open, transparent and accountable to all news organisations”
- The Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom, founded by Greste, has offered to mediate the dispute
Since April, the NT Government has banned the online publication NT Independent from entering press conferences and media events, and government departments do not respond to the publication’s questions.
Peter Greste, who was sentenced to seven years in prison in Egypt in 2013…
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