Tuesday, May 22, 2007

McLeod's Daughters gets political

I don't watch McLeods Daughters, but apparently the Federal Liberals (namely Joe Hockey) got upset that a WorkChoices scenario was used in the TV show and that it didnt exactly paint a rosy picture.

So Liberal party reps met with Channel Nein execs to complain... how bizarre... what ever happened to free speech? Surely the McLeods Daughters script writers were simply portraying a day in the life of a typical Australian worker? No body seems to dispute the accuracy of the scene... just that its "not portraying the government in a good light".

Watch it yourselves here:

YouTube - McLeod's Daughters gets political

1 comment:

Arthur_Vandelay said...

You should read Silencing Dissent by Clive Hamilton and Sarah Maddison. The Howard Government has a track-record of control freakery, and it has never taken kindly to those who disagree with it.

The actions you describe in this post are par for the course.