Richard Di Natale (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

But The Guardian, as I understand it, are based here. All of their journalists are based here. They research and write specifically on Australian issues. They've got independent editorial control from London, which is more than I can say for some other news outlets. It's hard to escape the fact that this was structured in a way to do anything other than deliberately exclude The Guardian and other Australian based international outfits that are, indeed, holding the government to account. These are outfits with independent editorial control. They are based here and their journalists are here and yet we have a rationale that doesn't apply across any other media format. These are organisations that hold governments to account. So it's hard to escape the conclusion that this was done for anything other than political reasons.