Michelle Rowland (Greenway, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

No, not the young Nationals; we need people under 50. Go back to your electorates and speak to young people because in a few years they are going to be writing theses about this period of Australian history. They are going to talk about the dinosaurs who sat opposite and did not want high-speed broadband.

In no other country in the developed world producing high speed broadband networks have we had people in a parliament speaking against it so fervently for the sake of destroying it. You wonder why Singapore has managed to develop the way it has. You wonder why Korea has been able to do it. You wonder why all these countries have been able to take their economies forward, taking jobs from young Australians. It is because they understand the importance of the NBN. What we need to ensure in a global labour market is that young people have access to the NBN to be able to compete with everyone else. If you don’t like young people, go ahead and don’t like them; we on this side do. (Time expired)

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