I have been waiting for this moment all my life. That’s what I told my friends at The Star as it began to be clear that after 61 years, the government was going to change.
I think I was most excited about the gift of press freedom. Whether we admitted it or not, the outgoing government had a vested interest in suppressing the truth. From issues as wide-ranging as the redrawing of electoral boundaries to the financial atrocities of the 1MDB scandal, the truth was being suppressed.
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