Greens leader Bob Brown also welcomed the report and urged the government to take action to establish the proposed News Media Council to regulate news across all mediums before the end of the year.
“I think we have an inadequate system of serving the public interest in truth,” he said.
Senator Brown said it was important to ensure the new body was set-up as a statutory entity as recommended by Mr Finklestein because it would see Australia “catch up with other countries”.
So that means Bob Brown doesn’t agree with Article 19 from the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
Maybe in Bob Brown-land Article 19 should read:
"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression SO LONG AS IT IS THE SAME AS MY GREEN IDEOLOGY; this right includes freedom to hold GREEN opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart GREEN information and GREEN ideas through any media (EXCEPT NEWS LIMITED and 2GB) and regardless of frontiers."
Bob Brown and his merry band of fellow ecotards are a clear and present danger to free speech and the right to hold an opinion in Australia.
