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

Again, there is a string of false premises in your question. They are just wrong. This is a string of assumptions built on assumptions that actually lead to a completely incorrect question, because this is a government that is committed to delivering to all Australians faster and cheaper broadband. Notwithstanding the active attempt to sabotage a live tender process by those opposite, this government will not be diverted. It will not do what those opposite did during their broadband tendering process, which is to shift the goalposts; to offer an extra $200 million or $300 million, 50 per cent extra; to only tell one bidder out of 28, while the other 27 knew nothing about the change in the goalposts; and with the extra money on the table— (Time expired)