Helen Coonan (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

I have actually been reminded by Senator Kemp, who I think lived through all of this, how absolutely extraordinary this is. It is very hard to take the Labor Party seriously on this issue. They are the same Labor senators who opposed all of the government’s attempts to protect Australian families from offensive content on the internet. The Labor Party even went as far as to oppose legislation to prevent the misuse of freedom of information to obtain access to the addresses of websites, including child pornography, that have been taken down by the regulator. The Labor Party should not be coming in here and trying to lecture this government about matters that we take very seriously and will continue to take seriously to protect children—(Time expired)