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

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I again refer to the leaked email from Senator Coonan’s own office, where it lists the government’s 40 priority electorates. Doesn’t this email prove your broadband announcement is a pre-election political bandaid for the government’s most marginal seats and doesn’t it explicitly list Kingston, Stirling, Bonner, Macquarie, Bass, Deakin, Solomon, Wakefield, Makin, Hasluck, Moreton, Blair, Lindsay, Eden-Monaro, Page, Dobell, Braddon, McMillan and others? Don’t Australians have every right to be cynical about a government that only acts on broadband in an election year and then tries to dress up the benefits in marginal seats only?