Helen Coonan (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

I was saying that while the government have been out there consulting, of course we know what Senator Conroy has been doing. He has been desperately fighting off calls for him to be dumped from the ALP leadership team. The Australian people simply deserve better from the opposition than a horse-and-buggy attitude to the media. Labor claim to be in favour of diversity when it comes to media but certainly not when it comes to the Labor Party. Labor claim the government will centralise power in the media industry, but that is about what they have been doing over the last couple of months, especially Senator Conroy. So the issues are going to be vital for a vibrant future culture— (Time expired)