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

A listless government that has now passed the bill through the House of Representatives, ensured that taxpayers’ moneys are not wasted with a spurious cost-benefit analysis, and defeated those opposite just recently who tried to gag the debate on the bill, and not for the first time, for about the fourth time—if that is the bar you set for ‘listless’, I will happily live by it. Again, this is a debate about a government that is committed to modernising this economy and ensuring that Australians get access to a world-class broadband network. Those opposite seek to deliver, well, to be fair, the 2007 Labor policy, but we have moved on from that and we are now actually building the National Broadband Network. It is on the ground being delivered in Tasmania. It will be delivered later this year—(Time expired)