James McGrath (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Shadow Assistant Minister to the Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate take note of answers given by the Minister representing the Minister for Communications (Senator McAllister) to a question without notice asked by Senator Henderson today relating to public broadcasting.

It's very important that we have a discussion about the ABC and it's very important that we understand the failure of the minister, over three questions, to adequately respond to the questions put by Senator Henderson. Indeed, Senator McAllister's first answer went for the grand sum of 15 seconds. Latter answers went for slightly longer but contained a lot less information for answers to the questions. It is very important that the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, which is funded by the taxpayers of Australia—it's not a private company; it's a taxpayer funded national or state broadcaster.