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

In response to Senator Conroy’s supplementary question, I say that what this government will not be doing is chucking $5 billion of taxpayers’ money at building a network that the industry will fund itself. You have to ask yourself: if the Labor Party cannot even get its head around building a fibre-to-the-node network without helping itself to $5 billion of taxpayers’ money, how could it possibly manage a trillion-dollar economy?