Chifley, in the House of Representatives, 18 June, 1941, during the last months of Menzies' first Prime Ministership:

"I deprecate attempts by representatives of the Government here and in Great Britain, and by a section of the press, to prevent criticism of what are obviously grave errors of judgment by saying that such criticism is evidence of a lack of patriotism ... No opposition which does its duty to the people can allow a Governemnt, or a group of persons, to stride blunderingly into error in seven-league boots, and then seek to hide behind a smokescreen of patriotism, or to deflect criticism from themselves by talking of the gallantry of our soldiers."

Nothing changes, does it?