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. Why did the minister last night secretly doctor her own media release of yesterday, which originally made the farcical claim that the government would deliver a minimum speed of 12 megabits per second to 100 per cent of Australia? Given that the minister also made this absurd claim in question time yesterday, why didn’t the minister immediately come back to the Senate and correct the record, as the standing orders require? Doesn’t the minister stand exposed as being grossly deceptive in trying to spin her second-rate service?