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Journalists and security agencies don't need to be friends. But can they at least talk to each other?


Like dogs and cats, snakes and rats, journalists and the government are not supposed to be friends.
It is always going to be a fractious, difficult relationship. We, the voters and taxpayers, grant politicians enormous power and resources to run the government on our behalf. The media’s job is to make sure they do it responsibly and ethically.
As the American newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst reportedly once said, “news is whatever someone doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising”.
The natural order of things
requires there to be a necessary tension between those two institutions. But mutual hostility isn’t necessarily always a good thing. ....

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This former Australian soldier fought the war in Afghanistan. Now he says it wasn't worth it


It’s been 10 years since Mark Wales last deployed to Afghanistan.
The retired Australian Special Forces soldier is proud of his service but doesn’t hesitate to declare that the US-led alliance, of which Australia was a part of, lost the aimless war to the Taliban.    
“It s surprising to me that no one is banging their fists on the table about this. We’re trying to just creep away saying, ‘oh we just lost that war. I hope no one notices, ” the 41-year-old tells SBS News from his home in Perth.
“It’s a pretty big deal. If we’re losing wars at a national level it has to be understood and measures [need to be] put in place so it doesn’t happen again.” ....

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