Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

of course there are times when the process has a bit of stress on it. Prime Minister Cameron has found that. In this parliament on a number of occasions we have dealt with bills late at night; we have dealt with bills under some pressure. But, unless the opposition is going today to go out and use about Prime Minister Cameron every word, every insult, every piece of criticism that they have used against the government, then they will stand condemned for the hypocrisy that this is, the absolute hypocrisy. There is Prime Minister Cameron with a model of intervention in the media, much stronger than anything ever contemplated by this government, and what do we hear? Absolute silence—because it is hypocrisy, pure and simple. The motivation here is no more or less than a bit of craven political advantage. The one thing that they will never do, that they will never bother about—

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