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The raid in a suburb of Sydney came a day after federal police searched the Canberra home of Annika Smethurst, the political editor of The Sunday Telegraph of Sydney, over a 2018 story
detailing an alleged government proposal to spy on Australians. News Corp. Australia, the parent company of The Sunday Telegraph, said the raid "demonstrates a dangerous act of
intimidation towards those committed to telling uncomfortable truths". Australian law forbids officials from disclosing secret information, and the police warrants in both raids were
based on a law enacted in 1914. Anderson said ABC stood by its journalists, would protect its sources and continue to report "without fear or favor" on national security and
intelligence issues. "We will be doing everything we can to limit the scope of this and we will do everything we can to stand by our reporters and as a general observation, we always do
whatever we can to stand by our sources of course," ABC Editorial Director Craig McMurtrie said.