{"id":2497,"date":"2014-08-05T19:23:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T19:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2014-08-05T19:23:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T19:23:28","slug":"wikileaks-reveals-unprecedented-media-silencing-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wikileaks-reveals-unprecedented-media-silencing-in-australia","title":{"rendered":"Wikileaks Reveals \u2018Unprecedented\u2019 Media Silencing in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">An attempt by the Australian government to suppress details of a corruption case has backfired.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/08\/thediplomat_2014-08-04_14-01-47-386x459.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2498\" alt=\"thediplomat_2014-08-04_14-01-47-386x459\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/08\/thediplomat_2014-08-04_14-01-47-386x459-252x300.jpg\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/08\/thediplomat_2014-08-04_14-01-47-386x459-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/08\/thediplomat_2014-08-04_14-01-47-386x459.jpg 386w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Jarni Blakkarly<\/p>\n<p>August 04, 2014<\/p>\n<p>Wikileaks has released a leaked copy of <!--more-->a court order handed down by the Victorian Supreme Court that shows what the anti-secrecy website calls an \u201cunprecedented\u201d level of media censorship in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The document released early last week appears to show a suppression order issued by the court forbidding the Australian media from making any mention of an ongoing corruption case involving Securency, the troubled banknote printing company and a former subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia, and a list of high-ranking politicians in Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in a press release called the suppression order \u201cthe worst in living memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Australian government is not just gagging the Australian press, it is blindfolding the Australian public. This is not simply a question of the Australian government failing to give this international corruption case the public scrutiny it is due.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2014\/08\/wikileaks-reveals-unprecedented-media-silencing-in-australia\/\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An attempt by the Australian government  &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wikileaks-reveals-unprecedented-media-silencing-in-australia\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,110],"tags":[719,718,717],"views":2866,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}