SARAH PALLETT (Labour—Ilam): Thank you very much, Madam Speaker. It's my great privilege to rise this evening to speak in favour of the Protection of Journalists' Sources Bill. I'd also like to begin by thanking and acknowledging my colleague and friend Louisa Wall, who is unable to be here to speak to her bill tonight, and also to acknowledge the Hon Clare Curran, who began this important piece of work. It is an important piece of work because the protection of sources and the support of our journalists is a key principle in securing freedom for the press, and why is it important? A lack of clarity at the moment in the law is enabling and facilitating incidents such as we saw with what we know now to be the unlawful search of investigative journalist Nicky Hager's home. 