Senate debates

Monday, 17 August 2009

Questions without Notice

Broadband

2:46 pm

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

That entire question is based on a string of assumptions that are fundamentally incorrect. It is impossible to answer a question that is based on hypothetical assumptions that were in the newspaper this morning and that have nothing to do with the project. It could not be clearer than that. ‘If there is only this take-up’—how can one possibly answer a question that is based on a hypothetical? So let me be clear: Tasmania currently has the worst and most expensive broadband in this country. That is your legacy—yours and yours and yours. You can put out all the press releases you want—

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