Fed: Lateline needs to balance its reporting, Howard
Prime Minister JOHN HOWARD has accused the ABC television program Lateline of becominga participant in the debate over mandatory detention for asylum seekers.
The program last night aired an interview with three workers from South Australia'sWoomera Detention Centre, who broke a workplace agreement not to speak publicly on theissue.
The workers were critical of conditions within the government-run facility.
However Mr HOWARD'S told ABC radio the Immigration Detention Advisory Group, chairedby former immigration minister JOHN HODGES, gives a very different take on conditionsat Woomera.
He says Lateline's guilty of a poor standard of reporting.
Mr HOWARD also rejects claims that lawyers are being denied access to asylum seekersheld in Australian detention centres.
AAP RTV db/clr/ld/rt
KEYWORD: DETENTION HOWARD (MELBOURNE)
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