Craig Emerson (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Service Economy, Small Business and Independent Contractors) Share this | Hansard source

The fact is, Minister, this government is reform lazy. That is the problem. Phil Burgess then went on to praise Senator Conroy’s initiatives. Also the Internet Industry Association—are you going to laugh about them too?—say, ‘This is good for the IAA and its members.’ The minister at the table today described this as ‘stupid policy’. Let everyone in rural and regional Australia understand that this minister has described the laying out of fast broadband to rural and regional Australia as ‘stupid policy’—as you would expect him to do, because he represents people in the cities and does not give a damn about people in rural and regional Australia.

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