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

You just keep hugging those nodes! The Leader of the Opposition said that investment in productive economic infrastructure like communications was vital. Following the NBN announcement, Mr Turnbull backflipped, criticising the government for investing in high-speed broadband infrastructure and describing the NBN as a monumental policy failure. So now the opposition appear to agree with investment in productive infrastructure but oppose investment in high-speed broadband. In his speech to the National Press Club on 6 May 2009, Malcolm Turnbull stated:

Debt which is incurred to fund investment in infrastructure that increases the productivity of Australia will, in time, pay for itself …

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