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Seditious opinion? Lock 'em upAbc.net.auOct. 25, 2005 |
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 An expert legal opinion obtained by Media Watch on the impact of the new Anti-Terrorism Bill says that journalists and the commentators they interview might be caught out by the new laws on sedition. In last week's show we drew your attention to the new sedition offences, as proposed in the leaked draft of the government's Anti Terrorist bill, which is still on our website. Dictionaries define sedition as conduct or language inciting rebellion against the government. As a criminal offence it has a long and dishonourable history as a means of shutting down political dissent, back in the Cold War and before. Our concern is how the new sedition offences might criminalise the expression, reporting and publication of the range of opinions in our society. ...Continued here 
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