Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I am. There are no prizes for guessing. The threat is of course the Australian Labor Party. But yesterday, after months of Labor dithering and Labor obfuscation, the opposition finally admitted that they are too weak and too timid to tackle media reform in Australia. It is curious that in the Labor Party's dissenting report they labelled the government's reform as 'piecemeal' and 'narrow'. So you will be surprised, Mr President, to know what Labor's alternative approach is. It is in fact to do less than the government is proposing.

Labor want to keep our media laws stuck in the 1980s. But I have some news for the Australian Labor Party. I have a few facts that might have escaped them. The first is that Kylie Minogue no longer lives on Ramsay Street. The second is that the internet does exist. It is very important that our media laws reflect the second of these facts. (Time expired)