Nick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting on Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

No it was certainly not for me, but it was reflective of the attitude of business in Tasmania to the NBN, because there is no doubt, if you look at the results from the federal election, that a large part of the reason for the relative success of Labor vis-a-vis the Liberal Party in Tasmania was business support for the NBN. The National Party does not exist in Tasmania, but that is another quite long and diverting story I could get to at another time. There is no doubt that the NBN is critical for—