Ed Husic (Chifley, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I have heard it all in this place—the National Party talking against the NBN; the National Party talking about the connection of their regions to modern high-speed telecommunications and broadband infrastructure, and the National Party talking against it! I might as well be sitting here listening to them bagging out farmers! I simply cannot believe that a National Party member who has a chance to connect his or her community to the modern world would say, 'This is a bad thing,' and spend most of their time bagging it out. It is beyond the pale.

I just want to ask a simple question: what type of committee was similarly brought together at any time under the Howard government?

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