Sid Sidebottom (Braddon, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Fancy having the other mob, the mob on that side, lecturing us on telecommunications and communications! Talk about waffle and bluster. I bring the House’s memory back to the pitiful record on telecommunications of those opposite. They were going to try to introduce, on the flimsiest of evidence, an out-of-date wireless broadband system that could never work. Under them, the concentration of media ownership in this country was probably second to none. They have an appalling record in that, and they have an appalling record of computers in schools and broadband generally. Then, of course, there is the appalling uptake—which is the reason we are talking about digital switch-over—of digital television in this country. So the member for Dunkley, whom I like a lot—he has a great deal of good swagger and bonhomie and a hell of a lot of bluster and a hell of a lot more waffle—talks about WIJI. Well, the word we are using—and you will be interested in this—is SWAGOnWI, not WIJI.

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