Qld Speaker denies Parliament media censorship
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The Queensland Speaker is changing long-standing rules for the way the media covers State Parliament.
For more than 10 years, the television networks have used their own cameras to film Question Time and other debates.
But the Parliament has spent half a million taxpayer dollars installing in-house cameras, so the TV crews are being kicked out.
Speaker Mike Reynolds says it will provide a better service to Queenslanders and denies it is an attempt to control what people see on the nightly news.
"You may feel it's sanitised - can I say this is not in any way, shape or form the Speaker trying to censor what people are saying in Parliament," he said.
"Every sound of a person actually saying something in parliament will be seen."
