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

Obviously Senator Lundy could not think of a supplementary question, because it is precisely the same as the first one. The point about it is that I have set out in great detail here the fact that I do not agree with those comments. Indeed, I would suggest that if you have a look at the penetration rates they are certainly not sustainable comments. If you look at countries like Korea, for instance, it has about 100 megabits available across the country but only 14 per cent of the population actually subscribe. That is because not everybody needs or wants a particular speed. It is something where it is important that we continue to invest in the rollout of fast capacity, scalable broadband. That is precisely what this government is doing.