Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I again refer the minister to the Citigroup report. Is the minister aware that the report finds that ‘Australia will have to wait until 2012—for true broadband—given delays on regulation and build unless the government decides to intervene’? As the minister for communications, when will the minister stop making excuses and finally take responsibility for ensuring that Australians have access to world-class telecommunications infrastructure and, like Labor, develop a plan to deliver fibre broadband for Australia?