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

It would be diverting, to say the least, if those opinions that are touted by Senator Conroy addressed the issue that was part of his primary question, which related to cross-media mergers. The ACCC looks after all mergers in this country. Unless you are going to say that the ACCC is incapable of managing mergers and acquisitions throughout the whole country, you cannot sustain that proposition. It is extremely important that the ACCC, like every other industry, is also able to regulate competition in the media sector. It ill behoves Senator Conroy to try to trump up some argument to the contrary.