NOISY SESSION

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 22998, 15 September 1944, Page 5

NOISY SESSION

Censorship Wrangle (Re 6.30 pin.) CANBERRA. Sept. 14. Amid Parliamentary uproar, Mr Abbott (Opposition) said that Nazi methods were being used in the Aust' .'.lian communications censorship and in compiling dossiers on citizens. Mr Abbott was movng that reports of tht recei *- judicial inquiries into the censorshp bv Sir William Webb and Mr Justic Clvne be printed. The debate was the noisiest of the present session. The motion for the printing of the rerirts was talked out. Mr Abbott said Sir William Webb's report that there had been no snooping by the internal mail and telephone censors was unsatisfactory The Government should or ' . Irish investigation e ther by a Parli nentary Committee or by a Royal Commission under a Justice of the High Court. Mr Curtin answered that he had no intention of ordering a new censorship i .quiry. He said a member of the Parliamentary Censorship Committee h .d released to the Press a copy of a seen War Cabinet document. Mr Abbott: I neithi den nor affirm that I gave the information to the wspapers. Mr Carrin; I think it would be a good thing ii. although you have been a Cabinet Minist —. you should never hold Cabinet rank again. Mr Abbot: : It the price of being a. Cabinet Minister is to sa- ifice tho* liberty of the individual ..nd the freedom of the Australian people I am willin • to forgo Cabinet rank. T . ■ debate Innsed