Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I appreciate Senator Heffernan's intervention. It is always colourful, but it does not disguise the facts. Again, I urge Senator Muir, Senator Xenophon and Senator Madigan: if you have fallen for this line, the kidnappings will take place. Know that it is not true. Know that, 15 years after the business community claimed it last time, it was not true then and it is not true today. No submissions came forward to justify this bill at all, other than those put together by a digital front group. Senator Xenophon, I thought, perhaps, once you saw that you were taken for a mug at the inquiry you might have been willing to reconsider. You were all taken for mugs by a couple of—

Progress reported.