Helen Coonan (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

Today’s broadband figures from the ACCC are very bad news for the Labor Party, and that is why Senator Conroy is so hysterical today in question time. The 1.5 million Australian premises that connected to broadband in the past year are simply rocketing Australia up the OECD league tables on broadband. It is clear that Labor hates the fact that Australia is now ranked fifth by the OECD on growth of broadband connections. Australians are embracing this technology and are taking up the ever-increasing range of services on offer under the government’s competition regime. While the Labor Party flounders on communications, without a policy on telecommunications or media, this government is getting on with the job of connecting all Australians.