Newspapers cannot justify running Clive Palmer’s Trumpet of Patriots ads as freedom of speech
- Written by Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
The publication by the Newcastle Herald of a political advertisement by Clive Palmer’s Trumpet of Patriots party stating “there are only two genders – male and female” has provoked a backlash that has seen the advertisement removed from the paper’s online edition.
The publisher, Australian Community Media, has...
