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Journalists’ Contempt Of Court Conviction “Blow For Democracy”
Monday, 25 June 2007

Journalists’ Contempt Of Court Conviction “Blow For Democracy”Herald-Sun journalists Michael Harvey and Gerard McManus have been convicted of contempt of court, and each fined $7000, for refusing to reveal the key source of a leaked story about a federal government proposal to slash war veterans' benefits. “The Alliance has always maintained that these two journalists should never have been charged. They were caught up in a government campaign to crackdown on whistleblowers, and now have been convicted and fined for doing nothing more than their jobs,” Alliance Federal Secretary Christopher Warren said. Read full press release here...
 
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