Adjudication No. 183 (February 1984) [1984] APC 6

ADJUDICATION No. 183 (February 1984)

By letter of 7 September 1983, Senator M. Colston complains of material in the Bowen Independent of 31 August 1983. The material objected to is a note by the editor attached to a letter from the senator correcting an error in an article previously published, concerning social services.

The error was contained in a statement, quoted by the paper, made by a State M.P. The note objected to the tone of Senator Colston's letter. The Press Council considers that Senator Colston's letter was inoffensive and the editor's reaction to it excessive. However, it was not a matter coming within any of the considerations which the council regards as founding a complaint, but a matter of taste. Senator Colston's request for an "unqualified apology" was equally excessive.