Helen Coonan (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you to Senator Wortley. The situation is that the cross and media laws are certainly not the centrepiece of this package. The centrepiece of the package is the move to digital and the switching off of the analog signal, which will enable Australia to actually participate in what the rest of the world is moving to, which is digital. But these are important adjuncts to the proposal. Based on the fact that News said that their opposition to cross and foreign is based on a number of matters that I have talked about or misapprehensions as to how this package works, the answer is that of course the government will continue to consider the appropriateness of cross and foreign reforms.