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

The 75 per cent reach rule was on the agenda of the convergence review. It went around the country and it took submissions from all organisations, including free TV, including possibly individual proprietors. I have advocated that, with the advent of internet TV, a 75 per cent reach rule is outmoded and ultimately will be bypassed by the technology involved. I have argued long and hard that it is time to modernise this law. I absolutely stand by that. I am absolutely confident that this law will be made to be a joke, if it is not already a joke, very shortly when companies start streaming online. But for anybody to have been unaware of my strong views on this, unaware that the convergence review was debating it, unaware that the convergence review makes some recommendations in this area or unaware that the laws that stand today and would still stand are the very laws introduced by those opposite— (Time expired)