PerthNorg

Ha ha if the journo’s desk is anything like mine … good luck to the guys from the Major Fraud Squad!

Though … what am I missing in the story? Obviously, with News.com.au being the parent company for Perth Now they’re not going to incriminate themselves or say anything negative … but I don’t see what the problem is or the justification for the issuing of the warrant and the police raid?

As a CitJ can I expect coppers rocking up at the front door if I published a story on the Norg that some politician doesn’t like?

At first I took it as a bit of a joke, but if you look further it is a little strange.
The Major Fraud Squad usually only handle cases with financial losses above $50k.
The search involved 20 officers to investigate the unauthorised disclosure of one or more confidential documents.
If it was such a significant crime that it required the majority of staff of a major police unit, why did it take 11 weeks to take action?

ps the ABC news has more details

The coppers are going to be hard-pressed to find any sources of information for ANY of the stories they write.  Don’t they make most of their stuff up? =)

The d’s will have to shout a couple rounds at the Court Bar for that one.  I particularly liked the story Paul Lampathetic wrote some time ago about the education department initiative to have cops instructing kids at schools about how to use bongs.