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

You have every opportunity in the take note of answers debate after question time to name a company that has suggested that it is considering legal advice. You are welcome to name it. You are welcome to name anyone who has suggested that. What we have to do is follow the process set in train. We will not do what Senator Coonan did last year, when she was running this portfolio—that is, start a process and then, halfway through it, change the goalposts and only tell one bidder. And, funnily enough, the one bidder was the winning bidder. Twenty-seven other bidders did not even know the process had been changed— (Time expired)