Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water) Share this | Hansard source

The reason that Senator Fisher does not want to hear what I am saying, and the reason she is constantly interjecting, is that deep down she does know that South Australians do support the national broadband rollout. We know that because we have the figures already. Eighty-five per cent of owners of premises in Willunga have already indicated that they want national broadband. Ordinary Australians understand what Senator Fisher would appear not to understand, and that is that we have to move from the digital Stone Age to the digital future. That is what the national broadband delivers. It is a historic infrastructure project. It has been said in the past that the railway was the great infrastructure development of the 19th century. Our NBN is the great infrastructure development of the 21st century. It is going to connect towns like Jamestown. Jamestown will eventually be one of the towns that are connected. I know you have a strong connection with the town of Jamestown because you grew up in outback South Australia.