The humiliating spectacle of party disunity, brought about partly by Mr Schröder's powers of persuasion, was the last thing they needed.
Pyne's argument on Sunday morning was colleagues should hold their tongues – not fuel the media's appetite for stories about disunity because journalists were not "trying to help the government be re-elected".
Soon afterwards, there were leaks about disunity in Mr Abbott's political ranks, over his proposals to cut spending on reconstruction work after the recent flood and cyclone damage in Queensland.
As was the way in the late 60s, they had developed a lot of radical ideas – "about disunity and provocation and abandoned strands of urban theory" – but never really had the opportunity to put them into practice.
"What I don't understand is how you can complain about disunity in the party when you and others are the ones who resigned from the shadow cabinet," Corbyn said, prompting huge cheers from the audience.
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Yet despite several obstacles, the contradictions of some zero-sum geopolitical calculations and the disunity of governments about how best to combat terror, the self-proclaimed Caliph, Al-Baghdadi, has undertaken a war that he cannot actually win.
Long a skeptic about Republican leadership during the Obama presidency, Shirley's concerns about Republican disunity aren't entirely rare within the party ranks.
She spoke about party disunity as though she had no part in it.
