The Naughty Bits - Free Speech and Sensitive Information

Television (Full Length Episode) – 2014

On the whole, we are a liberal country. We're a modernising, Pacific country in ways which are quite separate from the political processes.
– Investigative journalist Nicky Hagar

When we first got videos, only G [certificate] videos could be shown in a prison. So that actually made Bambi a banned film, because it was GA.
– Prison Official Phil Lister reports a surprising consequence of censorship rules

On one hand, we are quite liberal in many ways, and we think about things, and we can often come to a common sense approach to things like censorship that other countries can't get to ... But on the other hand, we've also got this nasty little Venetian blind, twitching 'look at the neighbours and judge them' attitude about things.
– Researcher David Herkt on censorship in New Zealand

I think, when you look back at the history of censorship, you find that practically every film that's been rejected is really, by our standards, harmless.
– Arthur Everard, who was New Zealand's Chief Film Censor from 1984 to 1990

The correspondents, generally, on the Western Front, from 1916 until 1918, were generally kept in the dark and were told what the British military hierarchy or the British Government wanted them to know.
– Author and Historian Ron Palenski on what war correspondents in World War I were told

In a free society there has got to be freedom of political debate, and you can't censor the political expression of ideas.
– Former Attorney General Geoffrey Palmer on his views towards censorship

Nowadays we don't call it censorship ... we call it public relations.
– Investigative journalist Nicky Hagar

They told the New Zealand public that the New Zealand Special Air Service (the SAS) was in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2012 'mentoring' the Afghan Crisis Response Unit. When, in actual fact, what the SAS was doing was partly teaching, party training — but also going out in the field in what was clearly, on many occasions, an active combat role. And that is something that the public weren't told.
– Journalist Jon Stephenson on misinformation being given to the public