Greens ban media from WA conference

November 5th, 2011

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Australian Greens leader Bob Brown has defended a decision by party members to close sessions of their national conference to the media.

The weekend conference in Fremantle was open to the public on Saturday morning, but delegates voted for later sessions to be closed.

Senator Brown, who has called for media boardrooms to be open to public scrutiny, told reporters he was outvoted by party members on having the conference fully open to the public.

But he said it was the democratic right of members to have closed sessions, on the basis that members could be daunted by the media and be restrained in bringing their views forward when cameras and microphones were aimed at them.

Senator Brown said the open conferences of the Liberal and Labor parties had just become setpieces, styled for the media without rattling any cages.

He said it was a bit rich for the media to demand open party conferences when the media itself did not operate in an open manner.

AAP