Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern and Remote Australia) Share this | Hansard source

I repeat my last paragraph: when will those people who genuinely support the Greens political party as a keeping-the-bastards-honest type of party realise that the Greens political party is a party that wants tax deductibility for certain newspapers while opponents are subjected to even more stringent constraints and government controls?

In concluding this much-interrupted-by-Senator-Brown speech on freedom of the press, on special deals for some elements of the press and on constraints on other elements of the press, I leave senators with this quite famous quotation:

freedom of the press … cannot be limited without being lost.