Dodson not only refused but used the service to personally insult the Prime Minister, with the support of adoring journalists and to the applause of labour politicians and their supporters. Naturally this is the kind of despicable behaviour that left-wing journalists and their ilk revel in. This was a loathsome and vindictive attempt to inflict even more pain and embarrassment on Howard. It says little for one of Coombs' sons that he should try and turn his father's memorial service into a political platform from which to launch an insulting attack on the country's Prime Minister. The whole incident reeks of sheer ideological bastardry.
Censorship is a form of suppression.
To suggest, as Gordon and his ilk have done, that Howard has engaged in this practice is to literally lie. It is a cheap and nasty attempt to belittle and tarnish the man's reputation. And journalists assert this is not censorship. And that is exactly what Powell, Thorp and Gordon did. Readers will have no problem in detecting the real censors.