Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern and Remote Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr President. It is always the case of the Greens coming to aid their allies in the Labor Party. Does this prove that Mr Rudd drove negotiations for an early and expensive deal to try to offset, and even influence, the next bad Newspoll—the political win that Senator Conroy actually spoke about in his answer to the first question today, demonstrating that clearly this is all about politics and not about a decent national broadband network?