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

Thank you, Mr President, and hopefully I will also get a supplementary question. This is an important matter. It is an important matter for Australians that they do have a new, high-speed, national, wholesale broadband that delivers in the way in which it has been tendered for and that it meets all the characteristics claimed of it. Obviously this is a contract that is subject to careful negotiation, and the negotiations are currently underway. If Senator Conroy is lucky, I will tell him when we sign it.