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På The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s hjemmeside kan man læse følgende:

Journalists, artists battle Australian anti-terror laws
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Leading Australian artists and journalists are banding together to fight new anti-terrorism measures which they called ‘the greatest threat to publication imposed by the government in the history of the Commonwealth’ in a statement addressed to Australian Prime Minister John Howard.

Journalists, playwrights, documentary filmmakers, political cartoonists and others who might lampoon the government or question what it does fear the proposed sedition provisions. They say proposed new sedition provisions will infringe freedom of speech and that provisions for ‘preventive detention’ could be abused. Australia’s largest news organisations, Fairfax and News Ltd., are also teaming up to lobby the federal government over the bill.

Australian Prime Minister John Howard urges swift passage of anti-terrorism bill, in a time of international instability. Although there have been no terrorist acts within Australia since the late 1970s, the Bali bombing in 2002 was seen as an attack against Australians. The nightclub hit was filled with Australian tourists at the time of the blast.

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