Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

My apologies, Mr President. I was outrageously distracted—'provoked' would possibly be a better word. There is clearly a divide on the other side. Senator Birmingham's question demonstrates that he is just spending his time, once again, crawling to Mr Abbott—backing up Mr Abbott instead of getting behind the principled position of Mr Turnbull on this one. As Mr Turnbull has said, 'Sign the charter of editorial independence.' That is— (Time expired)