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

Welcome, Senator Nash. I will be coming to one of your pet topics later in the speech. This budget reveals a government with an eye on its own electoral prospects instead of on the economic prospects for our children. Nowhere is this more clear than in the Howard government’s failure to invest in a high-speed national broadband network as part of this budget. The government’s failure to invest in a national broadband network as part of this budget represents a missed opportunity for investments in bolstering Australia’s future productivity growth.