Senator BOURNE (10:15 PM) —The Australian Democrats, as Senator Schacht has mentioned, would rather see the word `related', and not just in subsection (d) of part 4 but in subsection (d) of part 2. We do not see why either the ABC, the SBS or the minister should be able to put in anything that they feel they might like to put in. I can understand the minister and the shadow minister seeing this from the point of view of the minister. Obviously, they both consider that they may well be the minister when this comes down. I am looking at it from the point of view of the rest of the world, which is not the minister, including the ABC and the general public. Most people would rather that the minister confined his or her—one day it will be a `her'—remarks to whatever is related to this legislation. However, I accept that we have two ministerial aspirants for the next parliament here, and I can understand what they are talking about.

I thank both the minister and Senator Schacht for accepting seven sitting days. We all understand that 15 days could blow out to months and months, if you timed it correctly. Seven is much more likely to be within a couple of sitting weeks. I move:

Paragraph (8), omit "15", substitute "7".

Amendment, as amended, agreed to.