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

That is exactly what we are intending, Senator Williams. I know that you are genuinely concerned, but your amendments will actually undermine the achievement of that guarantee. That is what will happen because you will actually withdraw key incentives to go forward. And just as it has been for the last seven years, where regional and rural Australia has not been getting all the services that the city has been getting, you will lock people into that for longer.