Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The government believes absolutely in press freedoms in this country, and we have taken the step to add additional defences into our laws to ensure that journalists can get about their tasks. In fact, they are protections that exceed that which apply to many others around the country. Those were put in place by our government, not those opposite. I remember that, when those were in government, they sought to gag the press in this country. They sought to gag the press in this country with their failed media reforms. They wanted to implement a public interest test and a public interest media advocate to try to stifle the press in this country. I'm not going to take lectures from a Labor Party who sought in this place, when they were in government, to try to muzzle the press.

Mr Dreyfus interjecting—

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