Lyn Allison (Victoria, Australian Democrats) Share this | Hansard source

I move, on behalf of the Democrats, an amendment to that amendment:

Omit subparagraph 531T(2)(e)(iv), substitute:

                 (iv)    business and domestic consumer interest advocates;

The reason for the Democrat amendment to the opposition amendment is to remove the words ‘the Australian Telecommunications Users Group’ as a nominated participant on the expert panel and substitute it with what I think is a broader and better representation—that is, the words ‘business and domestic consumer groups’. ATUG represents business groups, whereas I consider that on this expert group there should also be some advice from domestic users. ATUG only represents half of the consumer groups concerned.