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

The NBN will ensure that Australians have access to affordable high-speed broadband. The NBN will create jobs, help us tackle climate change, stimulate activity in the areas of health and education and offer small businesses new opportunities, while Mr Abbott wants to wreck this future. He has appointed Mr Turnbull to demolish the NBN, and Mr Turnbull is beginning to realise that by blindly opposing the NBN he is on a fool’s errand. In fact, last night on Lateline Mr Turnbull was asked about demolishing the NBN, and he said:

The fact is that - look, I’m not interested in demolishing the NBN.

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