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

I reject the underpinning assertion on which that question is based. It is an attempt to misrepresent what the Prime Minister said. It is a total misrepresentation—and then you add the bile and you add all of the rest on top and you come up with that question. What is clear from this line of questioning so far is those on that side of the chamber want to see a further contraction in media ownership in this country. They would prefer to see fewer media owners than exist today. They, unfortunately and quite astonishingly, have decided—