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

As I was saying, those opposite had 11½ years to prove that they would operate the communications portfolio in the national interest, not in the interests of any individual proprietor. But, every single time they tried a bit of reform, they were blocked—no multichannels and no dates of switch-off to actually force new content. None of that happened, because those opposite cowered when the phone rang: ‘It might be this mogul or that mogul.’ As a boarder, Senator Bernardi, I avoid moguls when I am on the slopes. So let me be clear. (Time expired)