This year's Gold Walkley winner Hedley Thomas has criticised the Australian Federal Police (AFP) for pursuing the lawyers who leaked the information that allowed him to write his award-winning articles.
Mr Thomas from The Australian won the country's top journalism prize for a series of stories about the government's handling of the Dr Mohamed Haneef case.
In his acceptance speech, he thanked Dr Haneef's lawyers Peter Russo and Stephen Keim for risking their careers to expose vital facts about the case.
"They went out on a limb, Stephen Keim particularly, risked his career and livelihood to help me see the facts in this case and for that he is still being pursued by the Australian Federal Police who have lodged and have active a formal complaint against him," he said.
"And I believe that every journalist in this room should understand that the Australian Federal Police and its Commissioner Mr Mick Keelty is still trying to punish Steven Kime for bringing out the truth."
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