An attempt by the Australian government to suppress details of a corruption case has backfired.
By Jarni Blakkarly
August 04, 2014
Wikileaks has released a leaked copy of a court order handed down by the Victorian Supreme Court that shows what the anti-secrecy website calls an “unprecedented” level of media censorship in Australia.
The document released early last week appears to show a suppression order issued by the court forbidding the Australian media from making any mention of an ongoing corruption case involving Securency, the troubled banknote printing company and a former subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia, and a list of high-ranking politicians in Southeast Asia.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in a press release called the suppression order “the worst in living memory.”
“The Australian government is not just gagging the Australian press, it is blindfolding the Australian public. This is not simply a question of the Australian government failing to give this international corruption case the public scrutiny it is due.