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Vanuatu prime minister criticizes post-earthquake documentary for peddling alleged ‘foreign media bias’

Vanuatu officials complain that an Australian report unfairly singled out Chinese construction projects

Written by Mong Palatino

14 April 2025

Yang Hengjun's death sentence jolts improving relations between Australia and China

Chinese Australian writer faces life imprisonment after secret trial

Written by Kevin Rennie

13 February 2024

National broadcaster axes Australian journalist Antoinette Lattouf over Gaza social media post

Staff threatened to strike over management's decision

Written by Kevin Rennie

26 January 2024

Australian journalist pushes back against anti-LGBTQ+ trolls

Media groups expressed solidarity with queer journalist Patricia Karvelas

Written by Mong Palatino

25 November 2023

‘I can see the entirety of the sky now’: Australian journalist Cheng Lei is now free

She spent three years in a Chinese prison over espionage allegations

Written by Mong Palatino

17 October 2023

Australian parliamentarians visit Washington to lobby for Julian Assange's release

Over 60 Australian politicians have expressed support for the Wikileaks founder

Written by Kevin Rennie

27 September 2023

Australian journalists imprisoned in China anxiously await diplomatic breakthrough

Detainee Yang Hengjun fears he will die in prison following medical issues

Written by Kevin Rennie

5 September 2023

‘I haven't seen a tree in three years’: An Australian journalist’s prison letter from China

Cheng Lei is facing espionage charges

Written by Mong Palatino

17 August 2023

Hong Kong pro-democracy exiles not intimidated by China’s arrest warrants and bounties

The Chinese government escalates its suppression of human rights advocates

Written by Kevin Rennie

12 July 2023

Australian PM Anthony Albanese adds to growing political pressure to #FreeJulianAssange

Grassroots protests have generated some high-profile support for the Wikileaks founder

Written by Kevin Rennie

12 December 2022

Policing the pandemic: Australia’s technology response to COVID-19

This piece examines four technology-based government responses to COVID-19

Written by EngageMedia

19 September 2022

Journalists call for the release of Cheng Lei who has spent a year in detention in China

She was a TV journalist in China before her arrest

Written by Mong Palatino

17 August 2021

Australian government on collision course with Facebook and Google over news revenue

Tech giants fiercely resist compulsory bargaining code of conduct

Written by Kevin Rennie

21 September 2020

Julian Assange supporters rally to defeat extradition to United States

Campaigning to free the Wikileaks founder intensifies before court hearing

Written by Kevin Rennie

7 September 2020

Another Australian university criticized for censoring voices supporting Hong Kong's human rights

Concerns have been raised over Chinese influence on Australian campuses.

Written by Fiona So

7 August 2020

Groundswell of support to free Julian Assange around February extradition hearing

Wikileaks founder faces court in the United Kingdom

Written by Kevin Rennie

13 March 2020

Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun still detained by Beijing after six months

Yang Hengjun's wife is now blocked from leaving China

Written by Kevin Rennie

15 July 2019

Australia’s digital rights advocates and tech sector push back against law undermining encryption

There are calls to roll back Australia's new encryption law

Written by Kevin Rennie

24 June 2019

Police raids on major media organisations expose lack of press freedom in Australia

Journalists face possible charges over publication of leaked government 'secrets'

Written by Kevin Rennie

7 June 2019

Censored in 2018: Protest videos, court verdicts, real news — and Peppa Pig

From blocked websites to revoked media licenses to account shutdowns, censorship comes in many forms. Here are a few we saw in 2018.

Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle

31 December 2018

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