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

If I may suggest to the member for Paterson, if you sit here long enough and listen very carefully you will hear what this legislation is intended to do and what is going to happen in my state of Tasmania, where the rollout is commencing very soon. So listen carefully and you might learn something.

I am very pleased to speak on what is a small but crucial part of one of the most important infrastructure projects of the Rudd government and, may I suggest, for the nation’s history this century. Specifically, this amending legislation, the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (National Broadband Network Measures—Network Information) Bill 2009, will play its part in bringing about the National Broadband Network, the NBN. The superfast National Broadband Network is about bringing Australia firmly into the 21st century and putting us ahead of the game rather than comparatively well behind, where we languish at present. This bill is essentially technical in nature—

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