Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to join this debate on the motion to take note of answers given by Senator Conroy today in relation to the latest chapter in the government’s great broadband hoax. That of course is what we are witnessing from this government at present: lots of talk, lots of spin, lots of proposals around how it is going to address broadband, but nothing that the Australian public is going to ultimately see delivered. We have a minister who likes to count, apparently. He likes to count Senator Minchin’s press releases. He likes to count what he calls former, failed broadband plans. He likes to count numbers. We all know that, indeed.