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

This is one of the problems when you have prewritten your questions, like Senator Nash has. I have actually already answered the question she has now asked. Let us be clear: Senator Nash signed her name, along with Senator Joyce, to the proposition of the Page research foundation, that National Party think tank. I know, Senator Macdonald, you will laugh at the concept of a National Party think tank, but they actually put forward a proposition of fibre to the home to 99 per cent of regional Australians. That is actually what Senator Nash and Senator Joyce signed up to, yet they turn up in this place and they decide they want to criticise this government for the election commitment of 98 per cent. Labor is not prepared to abandon rural and regional Australia in the way the former government did. Five capital cities— (Time expired)