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. Welcome back, Senator Conroy. I refer the minister to a recent editorial on Labor’s record on broadband in my hometown newspaper the Adelaide Advertise, which quite astutely observed:

So far, not one household or business has been hooked up to anything they could not have accessed before Labor took government.

Can the minister explain to the Senate why it is that two years after the government’s election, and despite having made extravagant election promises to the Australian people, he has failed to deliver a single new broadband service to a home, business, school or farm under the guise of his much touted National Broadband Network?