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

Mr President, I have to say that that point of order again demonstrated that those opposite will misrepresent anything. They stood up and said, 'Mr President, I shrunk the question'—suddenly rewrote the question, as he stood there, when the question accuses the government of gagging free speech on the basis of a statutory underpinning for a press council. What can we say around the world? In Finland, No. 1 with Reporters Without Borders, they have a statutory underpinning to their processes. What do Reporters Without Borders say? The No. 1 free-speech country in the world— (Time expired)