Liberal Party Broadcasts May Be Stopped

Grey River Argus, 30 October 1948, Page 8

Liberal Party Broadcasts May Be Stopped

CANBERRA, October 28. It was apparent that the Australian Broadcasting Control Board Bill was designed .to suppress a series of broadcasts which were presented twice a week, in every State by the Liberal Party, said the Federal president of the Liberal Party (Mr R. G. Casey). “That many sections of the Bill are a direct invasion of the realm of free speech is quite clear”, he said. “The Bill, if enacted, would confer powers tantamount to those formerly possessed by, Goebbels in Nazi Germany and to those so disastrously exercised in Soviet Russia and its satellite countries”. When he introduced the Bill, Senator Cameron said that the ban on dramatised political broadcasts at election time would now apply to all broadcasts on political matters current in the preceding five years.