Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern and Remote Australia) Share this | Hansard source

No, I won’t go there, Senator Joyce. I was just saying that Senator Birmingham has indicated the opposition have no objection to adding the finance minister to the joint decision making on functional separation. But I just wonder why there is not some outside authority who determines functional separation rather than leaving it, with respect, to whoever might be the communication minister or finance minister at the time. It could be someone who might have a bit better of an idea of what it is all about.