Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I unfortunately missed the call before Senator Ludlam started moving his amendments. I did want to raise some issues in a more general nature. Perhaps I will come back to that later. Suffice to say in passing that the number of people who gave evidence to the committee is shown in the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee's report on this legislation, which I referred to in my second reading speech. At appendix 1 of the committee's report is a list of the public submissions that have been made—49 submissions, and many were called to give evidence. I note that some of the prominent groups that did give evidence or made submissions included the Communications Law Centre, the Australian Copyright Council, the Human Rights Commission, iiNet, the Institute of Public Affairs, the Australian Digital Alliance and Screen Producers Australia. Quite a number of people very closely—