Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Conroy. I refer the minister to the outrage sparked in the early 1990s when aerial pay television cables were rolled out under the federal Labor government despite the objections of residents and councils and the subsequent safeguards introduced by the coalition requiring carriers to seek state and local planning approval before deploying overhead cables. When does the government plan to attempt to repeal these safeguards in order to enable aerial cables to be rolled out for the $43 billion National Broadband Network, thus denying the opportunity for residents and individual councils to object?