Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the senator for his questions. The role of parliament in establishing underpinnings for regulatory frameworks for journalism has been a hot topic in this chamber for a couple of days. Mr President, you may remember the very famous news headline that came up recently in the Daily Telegraph. Some of you may be familiar with it. You may have even got my autograph on it by now. But I regret to inform the chamber that overnight a new villain has to be added to this list of despots, and his name is Mr David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who has rolled over to a Stalinist-type regime and introduced a statutory underpinning for a self-regulatory framework. In fact, it is not even self-regulatory; he has established a completely independent of the proprietors press council. So, if a conservative Prime Minister—