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

As I answered a few moments ago, the opposition are crying crocodile tears when it comes to complaining about the length of time available to debate this bill. If they had not filibustered, if they had not wasted two full days on the EPBC amendment, if they had not spent all their time deliberately gumming up the works of this chamber, we would not be in this position. But those opposite, who are the rank hypocrites for what they did with Work Choices and for what they did with the Telstra bill, now want to pretend to you—