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Tuesday, October 03, 2006

NSW Government's media release fiasco

Listeners to "Greenwash", the short segment I do with Cam Woods on 2SER each Wednesday morning, will be aware of the NSW Government's secretive approach to media releases.

The SMH chief NSW political reporter, Anne Davies, has picked up on the story with a clever column on the topic this week.

The more I think about it, the more ridiculously wrong it is. Media releases are the official word of Government. To deny the public access to them is to undermine the basic building blocks of democracy.

The fiasco has to stop. C'mon Mr Iemma be a man and step out of Bob Carr's shadowy ways.

 

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