On secrets, being investigated and keeping our pollies honest

Walkley award winner Annika Smethurst has had a bugger of a year and much of the cloud cover she talks about in this conversation with Tom Ravlic was due to the Australian Federal Police investigation into a story she wrote on the expansion of surveillance powers. She can breath more easily now given the recent news that the AFP has said it will not pursue charges. How does she feel? What effect did it have on news gathering? This is a compelling story. Listen up .... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.