Anthony Byrne (Holt, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I will talk about Mr Brett Fox who lives in Hampton Park. He has been endeavouring for the past 20 months to get ADSL connected to his home. He works full time from home as a project manager for an electricity distribution company. He is responsible for people in the local area getting new or increased power supply. He remotely connects to various company servers to do his job. Faster internet connection through ADSL is critical to his work productivity.

There are a substantial number of other examples with which I could enlighten the Minister for Ageing and, if I have time, one of them that I will come back to is the issue of the high-tech company that may have to relocate out of Hallam as a consequence of the lack of broadband speed. But there may be one issue on which the Minister for Ageing, the member for Sturt, might agree with me, and that is the issue of internet filtering. Families across Australia are concerned about children seeing pornography and violence on the internet. They want governments to do more to protect children from this material. I presume I have the support of the member for Sturt on this particular issue.

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