Dean Smith (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Let's also be clear that, when the Labor Party talks about opposition to these media reforms, not only are they talking about delaying protecting children from gambling advertising, they are also talking about unnecessarily delaying the necessary modernisation of the Australian broadcasting sector. Labor's decision to delay and vote down the government's media reforms, if that is where we get to, is because they are consciously choosing—in addition to delaying the protection of children, and delaying the modernisation of the Australian broadcasting sector—to ignore that very, very rapid change that is happening in regard to consumer behaviour.

Senator Dastyari interjecting—

I have often said, Senator Dastyari, that you would make a better Sam Dastyari MP than a Senator Dastyari, but do not distract me.