Bernie Ripoll (Oxley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Industry, Infrastructure and Industrial Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Again I hear snickers and some interjections. Obviously this government thinks there is only one type of person that you could possibly have on the ABC board. Maybe when government members get a turn to speak on this, they can describe to us the type of person, the type of character, that they are looking for—people with special attributes like perhaps having a Liberal Party membership card and ‘board experience’.

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