Senate debates

Tuesday, 26 October 2010

Questions without Notice

National Broadband Network

2:55 pm

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

and those in that corner should pay attention particularly to this:

“Most people don’t want to go to hospital, they want to stay in their own homes and convalesce there.”

"If we were to have care of our patients within their own homes via video conference, then the spend on health as a proportion of gross domestic product will fall away.

The opposition should explain why they want to stand in the way of these important improvements to the health system by standing in the way of the National Broadband Network. They are committed to opposition for opposition’s sake. It is an absolutely disgrace and an embarrassment to those opposite—

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