LAW “REFORM” BILL
N.S.W. LABOUR PROPOSALS (BY CABLE—PRESS assn.—copyright.} . ""SYDNEY, May 6. Introducing the Law Reform Bill in the Legislative Council, Mr. Lysaght (Attorney General) said that under the bill barristers would be free to discard the wig and gown. Another Important provision would make an defamatory statements in the Press or on the platform a criminal offence. He said: “I intend to protect every public man from blackguardly arid slanderous statements in the press and upon the platform.” Mr. Bavin, leader of the Opposition, declared that this provision would be like a double-edged sword. He would not be intimidated, and he added that , anybody who indulged m criticism • ’ for the public good would risk imprisonment. The whole .idea was a^s^ d > Impracticable and indeed laughable. If the Labour party stood for this, they should for ever cease prating about their love of freedom of speech. The debate was adjourned.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 May 1931, Page 7
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