BAN ON “POLITICAL DRAMATISATIONS”
AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT DRAFTING BILL
(Rec. 9 p.m.) CANBERRA. Oct. 18. A new broadcasting control bill which the Australian Government hopes to submit to Parliament before the end of the year proposes to give a board of three power to ban broadcasts of “political dramatisations.” With majority approval from the Labour Caucus, the Government is now drafting the bill.
At a recent caucus meeting, about 15 members tried unsuccessfully to refer the proposed bill to a party committee for investigation. They claimed that the proposed section conferring power to ban political dramatisations was too wide and dangerous. Members who supported the bill argued that the only dramatisations the board could ban would, be those in which actors simulated the voices of living Ministers and members of Parliament. It is believed that the members who opposed the bill in caucus are unlikely to vote against it in Parliament.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25629, 19 October 1948, Page 5
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