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I point to the fact that you do not need a messy stage 2 amendment to get commitments from the minister as a stepping stone to reaching the best way forward or the best solution.
It is important that we are deliberate in ensuring that local authorities and communities get the best chance to move towards new management in the public interest.
The Government wants to ensure that we open up all our airwaves to competition between in-house production and indies, and I happen to think that that is the right thing, because we want to get the best of the independent sector with the best of our in-house production.
If we can identify those issues, thereafter we can identify the best constitutional arrangement to allow us to do what we want, or what other types of negotiations we can undertake.
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