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

I know that this government’s comprehensive plan for broadband really gives the jump to Labor with their rhetoric on broadband. All they can think of is to throw ‘broadband’ into every statement simply because Labor have no idea how the market works, have absolutely no idea of how you could economically provide a solution right across Australia. But the suggestion that, inferentially, companies of the standard of Optus and Elders would be involved in any conspiracy is, quite frankly, completely offensive. I know that the Labor Party did not have the wit to work out how to cover 99 per cent of the population. We do and we will not be going back on providing broadband for all Australians. (Time expired)