Nick Xenophon (SA, Nick Xenophon Team) Share this | Hansard source

I shouldn't have opened that up! I shouldn't have mentioned the backpacker tax. I apologise. I did like what the Greens did on that. I thought it was quite ingenious and workable. As a matter of general principle, the executive arm of government should be allowed to initiate reviews on any matters within its constitutional power, however ill-conceived that review may be. As a matter of incontrovertible principle, the parliament has the right to reject any legislative attempt to implement any recommendations from such a review. My colleagues and I strongly support a well-funded, fiercely independent public broadcaster in this nation. For instance, ABC iview and SBS On Demand must remain free for all Australians forever more.