Monday, October 31, 2005
A JOB FOR MARGO
Internet revolutionary Margo Kingston is in a panic over “the potentially chilling effects of the Government’s proposed new sedition law on freedom of speech” and the “Government’s attempt to suppress dissenting opinion”. Hmm ... perhaps the government should hire Margo as a suppression consultant:
When [Pauline] Hanson made her maiden speech in September 1996, I was chief of staff at the Herald Canberra bureau, and unsuccessfully argued that her speech should not be reported at all. I also had a personal policy of refusing to speak to Hansons then adviser, John Pasquerelli, and not to write news stories about Hanson or her party. I even quietly cheered when watching violent protests at formation meetings of One Nation.
Kingston subsequently became a One Nation supporter in an alliance aimed at limiting free speech by maintaining restrictive media ownership laws.