Stephen Jones (Throsby, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

At three o'clock today, the Leader of the Opposition sought to suspend the normal operations of parliament to bring to this place a serious debate about what he described as the most grievous assault on democracy that this country had ever witnessed—more grievous, indeed, than the atrocities visited upon the populations of China and the Soviet Union by those well-known historical despots Mao and Stalin. Some of the greatest atrocities ever committed in this nation's history were being visited upon the Australian people by some bills to seek to regulate and bring a bit of sense to how we deal with media in this country. What were the bills aimed at? Quite simply, to ensure that organisations be subject to a self-regulatory code, to ensure—

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