Ben Goldsmith

It's positioning, to build on that if and when the rules change, and there's every indication the government is going to move on it, the thinking has always been ... that the metros would buy the regionals, but this sounds like the other way around.

Turnbull is trying to push things along and he can then say, 'Nothing's happened', for major changes (to media policy) it does require there to be general agreement, or public demand.