Jacinta Collins (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Perhaps Senator Bernardi would like to have the precise quote on that issue so that he understands very clearly what his leader has been saying should be the case. But when we have the opposition saying, ‘No, we should have this free-market experiment’—one that allows the delivery of community services such as child care to be vulnerable to market failures and risky market behaviour, which is what has occurred with ABC—we obviously do have a problem. I will use the remainder of my time to go back to the point that Senator Payne made about the lack of a contingency plan. Unlike the former government, we have indeed committed to provide—