Justice & Advocacy
“What happened on Saturday at the ballot box, and how we see the value of a free press within our democracy, may shape not just the country’s political future — but the survival of a free press that can hold that future to account,” says Dr Kasun Ubayasiri as World Press Freedom Day was commemorated on election day
People & History
“I did the two-year whites-only compulsory military conscription as a ‘religious non-combatant’, but when required to do continuous military service one month per year, thanks to Albert Nolan and his contemporaries, I found the courage to declare myself a conscientious objector in the late 1980s, risking jail and worse,” says The Rev’d Nic Denny-Dimitriou
Anglicare Australia and other leading charities, including The Fred Hollows Foundation, St Vincent de Paul and the Aboriginal Executive Council, have written to three UN Special Rapporteurs on democracy and freedom of expression, calling on them to take urgent action to stop new rules targeting charities
World Press Freedom Day is on 3 May, with this year’s theme based on the role of the media in elections and democracy: why do we even need this day and is a free and independent press still important?
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