The Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Convergence Review and Other Measures) Bill 2013, utterly unchanged after desperate lobbying by the screen sector, went to the Senate yesterday. Greens Senator Scott Ludlum took the fight to the last ditch, and forced a surprising concession on the government.
Probably ignoring the snoozing, schmoozing, texting and twittering by other members of the Senate who don’t share his idealism, Senator Scott Ludlum rose to condemn the “rapid and arbitrary timetable that the minister and the government have placed on the entire parliament”, the way in which the Opposition nixed the whole lot before reading it, and the failure to adopt a broader approach favoured by the Greens.
