Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications) Share this | Hansard source

A second course—the Prime Minister is quite right. The first course was Rudd, the second course was Gillard, and then he went back to the first course. Well, you can do that at a Vietnamese restaurant, I suppose. You can just go back to the beginning of the menu.

But really the truth of the matter is interviews with Alan Jones are always entertaining. He is a very colourful interviewer and I was delighted to see parts of that interview broadcast. It was a colourful one and one where each of us stood our ground. You could say of Mr Jones, and I think he would probably say it of me, that we are often wrong but never in doubt. It is important to stand up to him and to not be bullied by him. I must say that over the years the great mistake that politicians have made—including, the member for Watson knows, a Labor Premier of New South Wales—is to allow yourself to be bullied by the media. It is absolutely vital to win the respect of the public and indeed of the media itself, to stand your ground, stand up for what you believe in and not be bullied into an echo chamber. That is the critical—

Mr Shorten interjecting—

'Climate change,' says the Leader of the Opposition. This is the man that persuaded Kevin Rudd not to go to a double dissolution. This is the man that led Kevin Rudd over the cliff into an abyss, where he then stabbed him in the back. You have no credibility on integrity, Leader of the Opposition.

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