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

Senator Conroy really needs to do his homework. Currently Australia has the second fastest take-up rate in the OECD of broadband. Close to 90 per cent of Australian households and small businesses can already access fast multimegabit broadband speeds of between two megabits per second and eight megabits per second. Senator Conroy really needs to understand that this is an increasing story of broadband. It is a story of ever-increasing bandwidth, and this government will continue to pursue the policies which increase both broadband access and speeds.