Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

That is a bit of a worry. Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Does the minister recognise that if the so-called reach rule protecting broadcasting diversity is lifted at the same time as the government attacks funding to the ABC that the big losers in this so-called reform process will be regional Australians as regional broadcasters are absorbed into the big metropolitan media companies?