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

There are so many incorrect assertions in that question that it is hard to know where to start, but let me be very clear about this. Firstly, there is no conflicting evidence with testimony to the Senate select committee, because let me quote to you the chief technology officer for Telstra, Hugh Bradlow, who said that fibre to the home ‘is the end game’. That is Telstra’s chief technology officer and he said it many times. I will take his testimony over your assertions any day of the week, Senator Macdonald.

As for some of the other assertions, they are nonsensical. Some of them are so nonsensical that I do not know where to start with an answer. But this is a deal that is, as I said, a win-win. This is a deal that creates a wholesale market and a retail market, because those opposite cannot get away from the fact that they privatised a vertically integrated monopoly— (Time expired)