Doug Cameron (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Senator McGrath has also called for the ABC to be sold, echoing the calls of many over there and former deputy Liberal leader Neil Brown, who was recently appointed to the ABC board nomination panel. Given this growing push from within the Liberal Party and given that the Prime Minister has already broken his pre-election promise of no cuts to the ABC, will the minister now come clean about the government's secret plan to privatise our national broadcaster?