Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr President. The question of Mr Kim Williams's testimony of whether or not the Public Interest Media Advocate's powers are objective or subjective has been debated all around the world. In Ireland they have had this very debate. I was interested to read the views of Michael McNiffe, then editor of the News Ltd publication, the Irish Sunon the Irish Press Council. He said that the Irish Press Council is independent of the governments and will be accessible to everyone, so people will not need to go to lawyers if they feel they have a complaint about newspapers.