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

I ask a supplementary question, Mr President. Will the minister acknowledge that, as a result of his cancellation of the coalition government’s Optus Elders broadband project, which would have delivered new and affordable services to up to 900,000 underserved premises across rural and regional Australia this year, Australians are without doubt worse off under the Rudd government despite its grandiose election promises?