Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you very much. The member for Wentworth has raised in the broadest possible terms the future of our nation in telecommunications and who can be relied on to deliver that future. I can answer the member for Wentworth very clearly: the Australian people can rely on this government to ensure that they get the telecommunications our nation needs for our nation's future. That is because we are pursuing a real plan to make sure that people get the ability to move information around in the modern age that the modern economy requires. We are doing that and we will continue to do that. I am amazed that the member for Wentworth, of all people, would come into this parliament with a question like this. His deep discomfort with the opposition's 'fraudband' plan was on display the very day he announced it—adding, of course, to his deep discomfort with the Leader of the Opposition's so-called direct action policy. Well, let me assure the member for Wentworth of this: this is a government focused on the future, the NBN, the clean—

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