CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's government may review national media laws in the wake of the News of the World phone hacking scandal, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Thursday, after an influential party demanded a probe into Rupert Murdoch's local media empire.
"To see some of the things that have been done to intrude on people's privacy, particularly in moments of grief and stress in the family lives, I've truly been disgusted to see it," Gillard told Australia's National Press Club.
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