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

Senator Minchin again demonstrates his hypocrisy. Senator Minchin wants information that is supplied by companies in confidence as part of a tender process to be released into the public domain. He asked for this information. In actual fact, his office put out its 164th press release yesterday before they had read the information condemning me for not releasing more information. Read No. 164. This shows that Senator Minchin’s real agenda is to block and spoil our reforms to the sector and the rolling out of the NBN. Senator Minchin is not interested in improving broadband services for Australians, he is not interested in lower broadband prices for Australians, he is not interested in faster speeds for Australians and he is certainly not interested in regional and rural Australians closing the gap that exists at the moment in broadband services. (Time expired)