Andrew Murray (WA, Australian Democrats) Share this | Hansard source

I would be happy to; I would honestly be very happy to say that if it comes in the next sitting week, because that would please me enormously. I do not think you should engage in what we have been engaging in—the Telstra sale, the media law changes and various other changes in the corporate concentration world—and not simultaneously be strengthening the regulators, particularly the ACCC.

So, to sum up: this should not have been brought on in a rush. I have a fundamental policy problem with a couple of areas of the bill. The new bill is an improvement on the old one; my congratulations. And it is without the accompanying strengthening of the Trade Practices Act bill. Those are my comments.