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Peter Greste responds to the UNSW Legal Hour webinar on 'Freedom of the press' and the challenges facing journalistic independence.

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The media is being used as a weapon of both governments and extremists in a war of competing worldviews, Australian journalist Peter Greste has told an audience at UNSW’s Gandhi Oration.

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Award-winning journalist Peter Greste will deliver UNSW’s 2016 Gandhi Oration in a free public lecture on Friday 29 January.

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A penalty of five years’ imprisonment for a person who discloses information relating to a special intelligence operation would have a chilling effect on media freedom, writes Keiran Hardy.