Nick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law) Share this | Hansard source

I will just make a few remarks in response. I think it is appropriate to start with Senator Xenophon’s quote from Hugh Mackay when he referred to the culture of broken promises. The position of this Labor government is that we are voting tonight to maintain our election promise. We went to the Australian people committing ourselves to transferring $2 billion from the Communications Fund in order to provide up to $4.7 billion for a national broadband network. We made that promise at the last election, and if there is anything that senators should remember it is this: we have a Prime Minister who is determined to uphold every election promise that we took the Australian people. I challenge you to name one election commitment that the leader of the Labor Party, Kevin Rudd, gave that he has not delivered. This was an election promise.