“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."
You're obviously referring to Gillard's Labor minority gov't, right Tinn'? Oh what a lovely, fairminded, even-handed, unbiased speaker she got to replace Slipper with; what was her name Anna Burke, not the other burke Burke, the Minister for bare-faced lies and water stuff-ups and closed marine & national parks, Burke. Just as well we, the people, kicked up such a stink after Gillard had Mike Smith and Glen Milne sacked for trying to reveal the facts of her slush fund frauds and upon her trying to bring in her "hate media" censorship in the form of a Bill banning all anti-Labor/Greens media, or we surely would be now living in fear. Yes Tinn' it was a lucky escape from a terror-ible time.
