The goose and the gander

You have to laugh (I suppose it is to be expected) that when Chris Pyne announced his candidacy for the deputy leadership of the Liberal Part (here) he said "The new Liberal Party that starts today can't try and defend for the next three years the last 11-and-a-half years, that is the mistake that oppositions often make,"
Umm excuse me, but isn't this the same Liberal Party that has spent the last decade trying to make the ALP account for the previous decade.
I think this wore a bit thin in the recent campaign. there were (after all) voters at last Saturday's election who would not have been alive when Bob Hawke first became PM in 1983!