Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

As I said, it is very disappointing to see the knee-jerk reaction from the current shadow minister. Senator Minchin’s opposition to this process is particularly difficult to understand in the context of his boast that he sat around the cabinet table for nine years under the previous government dealing with every submission that came forward on this issue. We have taken exactly the same approach on these regulatory settings as the previous government took in its process last year.