‘How the Greens plan to silence the press’

‘I HAVE never been so frightened for our freedom of speech than I am right now.
No, I’m not talking about my own legal troubles, with a court being asked to ban my published columns on how some people claim a “racial” identity.
No, far more chilling – because it was so shamelessly explicit – was the promise made by Greens deputy leader Christine Milne on Monday to punish newspapers which publish articles sceptical of global warming and critical of the Gillard Government.
To hear what she said on the ABC’s Q&A program in supposedly free and democratic Australia, after all the lessons we thought we’d learnt from Stalinist Russia and fascist Germany, is staggering…’   Andrew Bolt, Australia.