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

I appreciate that Senator Birmingham there had to try to draw an even longer bow to connect the NBN related bills which are before the parliament. Let us be clear. The deal that is ratified is a deal between the companies. This is a bill that is about consumer protection. It is about the restructuring of the sector—something you apparently now support. This is a bill that is not about the National Broadband Network. It is a bill that includes a ratification of a deal struck between the NBN Co.—those 62 references are about a reference to the deal between Telstra and the NBN; they are not about the NBN—