Nick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the Attorney for his answer. But, further to his answer, this is not a case of mere silence. Say the scenario is one where, at 8 am every day, a media outlet announces, or a journalist says on their website, 'I have not been the subject of a journalist information warrant.' But, after 380 days of doing this, one day they stop saying that. Could that in itself go beyond silence to actually imply that they have been subject to a warrant? That would be a reasonable conclusion that people would reach. Could that previous conduct, saying that they had not been subject to it, imply that they have disclosed that they have been subject to a warrant?