Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, my eyes are wide open to the failures in your amendments and the failures in your bill. You want to define wholesale services in a wholly different way to what anybody else accepts as a normal or reasonable approach in this regard. You base it all on the concept that the technology being provided is not suitable for retail application. That is your sole line of defence, it seems, as to why you think that it is reasonable at present to accept your bill in its current terms.