Alexander Downer (Mayo, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

‘Try to censure,’ I said—not that you would succeed. If we were so wretched as the Leader of the Opposition says, the public presumably would hold that view and we would not have won any elections. Or maybe we are wretched—but not as wretched as the Labor Party, which have lost the last four elections. A censure overused is a censure discredited, a vehicle that does not become in the end credible for parliamentary practice. This attempt to censure is completely hypocritical, because the Labor Party’s contention is that somehow the government is involved in a cover-up. That is their contention, and the Manager of Opposition Business—

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