Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

It is quite open to others to accuse a minister of the Crown of blackmail, but the former minister over there used to cower at the ring of a phone in case it was a mogul, and she managed to say from the year 2000 to the year 2013: ‘We might switch off; we just might switch off. Oh, my goodness; some of those TV moguls don’t want us to switch off, so we’d better just have a target. We’ll have a target.’