Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

I reject utterly the premise of Senator Brandis's questions. This package will secure diversity—diversity that was weakened by those opposite when you chose, Senator Joyce aside, to weaken the existing cross-media laws. You may have been happy with that; Senator Joyce was not and he crossed the floor to vote with us. We said on that day five or six years ago that we would seek to restore protections for diversity. Senator Joyce came and sat on our side of the chamber and voted against your changes. We have now come to the point where we are going to go forward with this package and we intend to deliver diversity and fairness for ordinary Australians in this country. We intend to ensure that the Press Council— (Time expired)