Group defends broadcast of Parliament tape

Members of the Network Against Prohibition, charged over the invasion of the Northern Territory Parliament last year, were selling and showing the security video of the incident at a Darwin market yesterday, despite a court order not to broadcast the tape.

Magistrate Dick Wallace ordered the group not to broadcast the tape or place its contents on the Internet after he agreed to let them copy it on their own equipment.

The speaker of the Territory Parliament also ordered the group not to broadcast the tape.

But the group's Gary Meyerhoff does not believe he is in contempt of the court or parliament orders.

"I think people have a right to see this video and if the Parliament want to move a motion to throw me or someone else in jail for six months well that's up to them," he said.

"But as I said this is our right to freedom of speech, we went in to Parliament, that was our right to freedom of speech, and now were letting people know what happened."

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Pubdate: 03rd March 2003
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