Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

The public interest test talks about whether or not there is a reduction in voices, whether or not the reach is affected, whether or not there is a sustainability position whereby you might lose the voice completely if you do not allow it to merge. It is about the reach of the voices. Those are the sorts of issues that go to a public interest test. As I have already demonstrated in answers to the last question, a range of other countries—the US, the UK, Canada, and others—also have public interest criteria. This is not a new— (Time expired)