![]() ![]() But I'm hopeful of moving on the warrants matter later in this year. ![]() It was the start of that conversation yesterday. I've invited journalists and media organisations to put forward further thoughts. You've said you will, so when will we see the changes?ĪTTORNEY-GENERAL: This is the start of a process. KARVELAS: You mentioned all those recommendations, the two committees, the fact that the government did accept those recommendations but didn't ultimately act. As you said, there's a lot of different areas but chief among them is getting a better consideration of public interest on warrant issuing. So, my purpose in having this media roundtable yesterday with journalists and media organisations coming to Parliament House, was to restart a process of reform. There were bipartisan recommendations for change. Sadly, like so much else about the former government, the two Parliamentary inquiries reported and nothing happened. I think there's agreement across the Parliament and across the community about that and that improved protections are overdue. I think most Australians agree that journalists should never face the prospect of being charged just for doing their jobs. It prompted a national outcry and it also prompted a couple of Parliamentary inquiries. How are you going to address these issues?ĪTTORNEY-GENERAL: I think it's good that you're reminding people about what happened in 2019 where we had search warrants executed on the offices of the ABC and the home of an Australian journalist. ![]() KARVELAS: There are a whole range of issues on the table here - privacy laws, whistleblower protections, defamation, warrants such as those that were used to raid the ABC and the home of journalist Annika Smethurst in 2019. Welcome to the program.ĪTTORNEY-GENERAL MARK DREYFUS: Morning Patricia. Yesterday the Attorney-General held a meeting with key media figures on how to better protect journalists and their sources and Mark Dreyfus joins me now. It's something journalists and whistleblowers have had to contend with for years when probing people or issues some would prefer to keep in the dark. PATRICIA KARVELAS: Across this country, some people are investigated by authorities for simply trying to do their job. He said none have been in Arkansas.Subjects: Media Freedom Roundtable Whistleblowers The Voice to Parliament Jebaraj said that the factories being built as a result of federal law are being built near cities like Dallas, Kansas City and Boston. “This progress wasn’t inevitable or accidental,’’ Biden said in a statement to the Associated Press. He said federal laws that were signed into law by President Joe Biden like the Inflation Reduction Act, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the CHIPS and Science Act lead companies to build new factories. Jebaraj said the increase in construction is another reason why the economy grew. Consumers continue to be the bedrock of the economy, in spite of everything the Federal Reserve has done to cool the economy,” he said. ![]() “It really was driven by consumer spending, business investment and some government spending as well. Jebaraj said the economy’s growth was a result of domestic activity and not an increase in exports. From June of last year, it peaked in the summer of last year with inflation numbers close to 10%.”Īt a press conference last week, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said it is too early to declare a victory over inflation.ĭespite the interest rate increases intended to slow down the economy, the U.S economy grew by nearly 2.4% in the latest quarter, which was above expectations by economists, according to the Associated Press. “The most recent indicator we have for June this year indicates inflation grew 3%. “We can look at all the inflation indicators that we’ve gotten so far and say that the Federal Reserve has mostly succeeded in their goal to cool inflation,” he said. In an interview with Talk Business & Politics, Mervin Jebaraj, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Arkansas Walton College of Business, said the rate increases from the Federal Reserve have played a role in slowing inflation. After pausing interest rate hikes a month ago, the Federal Reserve last week increased interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point, according to NPR News. ![]()
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