Jason Clare (Blaxland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Communications) Share this | Hansard source

That was extraordinary. For those who missed it, what we just saw there was the junior minister at the table, the Minister for Major Projects, Territories and Local Government, do a backflip worthy of Nadia Comaneci. In case you missed it, what he just did then was to gut this bill like a fish. He came into this parliament in December and tabled this bill and gave us a lecture about how important this legislation was, told us that it improved competition, that it improved efficiency, and now he has just ripped all of that out.

This bill has eight parts and the government has just ripped five of them out. How humiliating. In case you missed it, this is the first bill that has been introduced by this government on the NBN in 2½ years.

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