TMID Editorial: Public money is not a minister’s propaganda fund

There is something deeply wrong when a minister can be found in breach of the Code of Ethics for using the Government's Department of Information to issue a partisan statement, yet the wider question of the use of public money for political promotion remains trapped in a legal and procedural grey area. The case involving Chris Bonett should therefore be viewed as more than another political dispute between the government and Opposition. It should serve as a warning to every minister and parliame

There is something deeply wrong when a minister can be found in breach of the Code of Ethics for using the Government's Department of Information to issue a partisan statement, yet the wider question of the use of public money for political promotion remains trapped in a legal and procedural grey area. The case involving Chris Bonett should therefore be viewed as more than another political dispute between the government and Opposition. It should serve as a warning to every minister and parliame