House debates Australian Broadcasting Corporation Amendment Bill 2006

Second Reading

Wednesday, 24 May 2006 House of Representatives

Bernie Ripoll

Bernie Ripoll Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Industry, Infrastructure and Industrial Relations

4:37 pm

Again I hear snickers and some interjections. Obviously this government thinks there is only one type of person that you could possibly have on the ABC board. Maybe when government members get a turn to speak on this, they can describe to us the type of person, the type of character, that they are looking for—people with special attributes like perhaps having a Liberal Party membership card and ‘board experience’.

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