Trish Crossin (NT, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

It gives me great joy to stand up in this debate on taking note of answers and support yesterday’s fantastic announcement by the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Conroy; the Prime Minister; the Minister for Finance and Deregulation, Lindsay Tanner; Telstra and NBN Co. on the next step in our rollout of fast broadband in this country comparable to that which the rest of the world is experiencing. I thought Senator Joyce was the person who represented people in the bush, the king of regional Australia in this federal parliament—