"Australia is flexing its anti-speech authority, asserting the power to control what its subjects are allowed to talk about." The state absolutely has that res

"Australia is flexing its anti-speech authority, asserting the power to control what its subjects are allowed to talk about." The state absolutely has that responsibility, and there isn't even a debate about that in general. You cannot publish pictures of your naked girlfriend, or private medical records, or private e-mails of some employee of ABC corp, or of some bureaucrat, or of some military technology etc.. There's no debate there. So then the question becomes - "What information that is nominally protected by law (say for example, classified material), rises to the level of evidence of criminal activity and therefore newsworthy, by law" That's a razor's edge, and that has to be sorted out if we want to live in a world where our privacy is protected but the at the same time legit crimes are called out.