{"id":48100,"date":"2021-02-21T20:39:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T20:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/?p=269976"},"modified":"2021-02-21T20:39:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T20:39:09","slug":"free-speech-for-the-public-service-friends-only-foes-face-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/21\/free-speech-for-the-public-service-friends-only-foes-face-prosecution\/","title":{"rendered":"Free speech for the Public Service? Friends only, foes face prosecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"675\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/high.court_.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"High Court of Australia\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/high.court_.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/high.court_-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 675px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>The Department of Parliamentary Services has been in the news following reports that it withheld its security incident report into the Brittany Higgins case from the Australian Federal Police, despite multiple requests, and was only provided after the police escalated inquiries. It seems the DPS has form in wanting to bury bad news. Marcus Reubenstein reports.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/free-speech-for-the-public-service-friends-only-foes-face-prosecution\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Parliamentary Services has been in the news following reports that it withheld its security incident report into the Brittany Higgins case from the Australian Federal Police, despite multiple requests, and was only provided after the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2434,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2434"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48101,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48100\/revisions\/48101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}