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

May I thank Senator Minchin. I think that is almost my first question in my portfolio capacity. The Rudd Labor government supports all broadband developments, be they delivered over fixed line, wireless or satellite technologies. The importance of different broadband technologies is highlighted in the statistics released by the ABS on 22 September 2008. For example, the ABS showed that wireless broadband technology subscriptions saw almost a 90 per cent growth—