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

Senator Conroy, are you seriously suggesting that somebody can be receiving something in their hand, accessing their emails and dealing in some other way with some other platform, all at exactly the same time? These transactions are timed. But, obviously, ACMA has some ability to have some discretion in how it understands it receives these things. It just does not seem other than—let me put it this way—the most outlandish suggestion that, right at the very same instant, three applications over three different platforms could all be registered at exactly the same time. I think that is really clutching at straws.