Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

And I accept that. I will take that interjection. Here is a view. A majority of the members of both organisations share the view that they want to be one organisation. Why on earth would there be a right to then take that to the court and say, 'It's their organisation. It only exists because they've joined together and formed these two organisations. But we're not going to let them have the freedom of a democratic vote as to whether it should be one organisation'? How do you argue that?

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