Senator ABETZ (Tasmania—Leader of the Government in the Senate, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service and Minister for Employment) (14:33): I share Senator Xenophon's concerns in relation to some of the directions— Senator Wong interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Order on my left. Senator ABETZ: Mr President, you get this non-stop barrage of interjections from the Leader of the Opposition—even on a question by Senator Xenophon. Opposition senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: On my left! Senator ABETZ: I really do ask her to desist, out of courtesy not to me but to Senator Xenophon. This is something that the management of the ABC has been considering for some six years and, regrettably, they are seeking to blame the decision on the government when they know full well that they have been moving their television model in this direction for some six years. That is why I find it particularly disappointing that, having moved in this direction now for some time, they seek to blame the government's— Senator Cormann interjecting— The PRESIDENT: On my right. Senator ABETZ: savings mechanisms for these outcomes. The ABC did a review of television production in 2008 when they first raised the prospect of changing their internal production model. The ABC made public statements in all Senate estimates and at Senate inquiries that, since then, they were reviewing TV production in my home state of Tasmania and indeed in South Australia. So these things were on the drawing board well and truly before the announcements by Minister Turnbull, and that is why it is somewhat distasteful when these two things are brought together and are sought to be blamed on the government's savings mechanisms in circumstances where we simply have to get the budget back under control.