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Tanveer Khaskeli
Virginia Haussegger
Australian Media personalities met with Deputy High Commissioner of Pakistan
Australian Journalists
joined other civil society groups in protesting the media crackdown in Pakistan
under the new Emergency decree. A delegation of the Media Entertainment and Arts
Alliance, led by Virginia Haussegger, delivered a letter of protest to the
Deputy High Commissioner of Pakistan in Canberra.
According to press report, In Australia, the deputy High Commissioner of
Pakistan Mr. Tanveer Akhtar Khaskeli promised representatives of the Media
Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA), an affiliate of the IFJ, to convey the
union’s concern about press freedom and rights to his Government. He defended
the Government's position and its proposals for a media code of conduct.
Virginia Haussegger
Virginia is the face of
ABC’s TV News in Canberra, presenting the national broadcaster's 7pm news each
weekday.
She first joined the ABC in the mid 1980s. Since then her eighteen years as a
television journalist have taken her around the world, reporting from the Middle
East, Europe, Washington and New York.
Virginia is in the somewhat unique position of having straddled both commercial
television and public broadcasting.
After working as the ABC’s political reporter in Melbourne, she joined the 7.30
Report, and later became that show’s host in Adelaide and Darwin. Virginia also
spent several years with the 9 Network, reporting for A Current Affair.
In 1996, she was awarded a United Nations Media Peace Prize for her coverage of
Indigenous Affairs. Prior to returning to the ABC in 2001, Virginia was a senior
reporter with 7 Network’s Witness program.
