Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I want to point out that I'm disappointed that the Nick Xenophon Team will not be supporting this amendment, because this is an opportunity to ensure that the grubby deal that's been done between the government and One Nation is put to parliamentary scrutiny. We all know that this review is the one element that isn't required in legislation and this parliament cannot stop it unless we give ourselves the power to do so. You've said, as a political party, several times in the last few days, that you don't want to be linked to the deal with One Nation. This is the opportunity to prove it. This is the opportunity to ensure that you are not backing in the undermining of our public broadcasters and allowing in the Trojan Horse which is going to rip apart the integrity of the online services run by ABC and SBS, along with their ability to deliver quality news and entertainment to the Australian public free of charge, as a public service. This is the opportunity to stand up, and you're squibbing it. Don't come into this place and tell us that you have nothing to do with the grotty deal between the government and One Nation to attack the ABC, when you're given an opportunity and you don't take it. It is clear as day that the deal done in exchange for the government to get their two-out-of-three rule through includes a package which attacks the ABC and SBS—attacks their integrity, their independence and their ability to continue moving forward to deliver quality services, news and entertainment to the public. You squibbed it. I'm extremely disappointed and I think many Australians will be too.