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

I would have thought that, from my primary answer, Senator Brown would have managed to get the point that this government’s commitment to broadband has in fact meant that there has been an exponential take-up of broadband, together with targeted government investment that is ensuring that multimegabit capacity is going to be available to Australians irrespective of where they live. It is very difficult to explain to Senator Brown that the Labor Party’s policy in this regard is totally unachievable, totally raids the Communications Fund and has no vision at all for the future of telecommunications.