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

We are in the process of conducting the pilot in Tasmania. The McKinsey report made a number of recommendations, which the government has been considering, but as I have made clear recently we intend to mandate that there be battery backup as insurance if a home, for instance, catches fire as part of the contractual basis from NBN Co. We have made it very clear. We have stated it on a number of occasions—NBN Co. I do not know how many more times I have got to say that to you.