Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications) Share this | Hansard source

ACMA does not have a role in editorial decisions at the moment or into the future. The whole idea of legislated independence for public broadcasters is that they are not subject to direction in editorial matters or news content by the government of the day. And the government of the day will not, under this regime, have the capacity to do that, and ACMA will not have the capacity to do that. Independence does not mean that the public broadcasters are in their own parallel universe, completely immune to the legislation passed by this parliament. They are subject to the legislation passed by this parliament, and they have legislated independence in editorial matters, and they will continue to have legislated independence in editorial matters, operational matters and news matters.