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

I welcome Senator Joyce’s contribution. I do not agree with everything he said, but I welcome it. However, I must comment on a couple of points that he made. It was not the leader of the Labor Party who stood up in his party room yesterday and demanded, right there, right then, ‘Sign up or else.’ It was not Kim Beazley who did that. It was not Kim Beazley who forced, with no debate, a decision to be made right there and right then. It was not Kim Beazley who gave his party room the bum’s rush yesterday and locked people in. It was not Kim Beazley—