Media Cover For Minister's Rescue

by Bob Burton [1] — July 31, 2006 - 4:26am

Federal police have raided the home of a government employee seeking computer and other records indicating whether Ms. Tjanara Goreng had contact with the newspaper, the (NIT). This followed revelations [9] in the paper that a senior federal Aboriginal affairs bureaucrat adopted "a bogus identity" to support claims by the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Mal Brough, that [10] "pedophile rings" operated in Aboriginal communities. Brough was widely criticised after failing to produce any evidence to support his claims. In June, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation [11]'s Lateline program broadcast an interview [12] with an "anonymous former youth worker" who supported Brough's claims and sensationally referred to young girls being held as "sex slaves." The NIT revealed the interviewee was Gregory Andrews, a branch head in the government agency advising Brough on Aboriginal policy.

Main Source:

Sydney Morning Herald, July 29, 2006 [13]

Links:
[1] http://dev.prwatch.org/users/7/bob-burton
[2] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/media/journalism
[3] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/public-relations/issue-management
[4] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/human-rights
[5] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/international
[6] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/propaganda
[7] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/secrecy
[8] http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.prwatch.org%2Fspin%2F2006%2F07%2F5040%2Fmedia-cover-ministers-rescue&linkname=Media%20Cover%20For%20Minister%27s%20Rescue
[9] http://www.nit.com.au/news/story.aspx?id=7409
[10] http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2006/s1640148.htm
[11] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation
[12] http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2006/s1668773.htm
[13] http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2006/07/28/1153816382654.html