Malcolm Turnbull in Question Time in the House of Representatives Chamber, Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: Kym Smith Source: News Limited
THE federal opposition admits there are some good initiatives in Labor's proposed media law changes, but says it is a shame they are likely to fail.
Opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull says there are a number of good proposals regarding changes to television laws.
"The reduction in commercial television licence fees, the changes to commercial content - they have to run more Australian content and be able to run it over the multi-channels, that's important," Mr Turnbull told ABC television this morning.
He also said updating the ABC and SBS charters was important but unlikely to succeed.
"Because (Prime Minister) Julia Gillard has thrown this into her assault on press freedom and the establishment of this new public interest media advocate ... it's quite likely that the whole package will fall by the wayside," he said.
Mr Turnbull said the prime minister's authority was at stake if she failed to pass the legislation.
"She will have stirred up a hornet's nest, enraged the media industry, got everybody offside and then not even been able to get it through," he said.
He called on the government to go to the polls early.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard says proposed media laws changes won't curtail the freedom of the press.
"Just call this off, go to an election, let the people decide," he said.
On Friday, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy dismissed complaints there had been inadequate time to consider the government's media reforms, saying it was too early to write off the support of key independents.
He is pressing parliament to pass his package of media legislation by the end of next week - a result that now looks unlikely, as independents Craig Thomson and Rob Oakeshott say they will oppose the bills, and other crossbenchers are also raising doubts about the changes.
But Senator Conroy said it was "too early to make pronouncements about whether or not people are voting for the bill".
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