Media reporting of ASIO killings illegal under new national security laws, says law expert

By Ben Grubb
Updated October 1 2014 - 4:23pm, first published 3:42pm
Bret Walker, the former independent national security legislation monitor, says new national security laws will prevent the deaths of innocent people being reported publicly. Photo: Fiona-Lee Quimby
Bret Walker, the former independent national security legislation monitor, says new national security laws will prevent the deaths of innocent people being reported publicly. Photo: Fiona-Lee Quimby
Bret Walker, the former independent national security legislation monitor, says new national security laws will prevent the deaths of innocent people being reported publicly. Photo: Fiona-Lee Quimby
Bret Walker, the former independent national security legislation monitor, says new national security laws will prevent the deaths of innocent people being reported publicly. Photo: Fiona-Lee Quimby
Bret Walker, the former independent national security legislation monitor, says new national security laws will prevent the deaths of innocent people being reported publicly. Photo: Fiona-Lee Quimby
Bret Walker, the former independent national security legislation monitor, says new national security laws will prevent the deaths of innocent people being reported publicly. Photo: Fiona-Lee Quimby
Bret Walker, the former independent national security legislation monitor, says new national security laws will prevent the deaths of innocent people being reported publicly. Photo: Fiona-Lee Quimby
Bret Walker, the former independent national security legislation monitor, says new national security laws will prevent the deaths of innocent people being reported publicly. Photo: Fiona-Lee Quimby

New laws set to be passed by Canberra this week will make it a crime for the media to disclose the death of an innocent bystander caught up in a bungled covert spy agency operation, the government's dumped independent national security legislation monitor has warned.

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