Loading Speaking at a Canberra press conference on Monday morning, Taylor said: “The comments were beneath the office of prime minister. They were insulting, and the prime minister should make a personal apology. “The hypocrisy of Labor and the prime minister on this topic knows no bounds, no bounds whatsoever.” I think that the prime minister owes the prime minister of Japan a personal apology,” Hume said. “I completely disagree with that interpretation of what the prime minister was saying.