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

it is a rhetorical question with no basis of fact in it whatsoever. What needs to be understood is that it is just like Mr Abbott said when he appointed Mr Turnbull: ‘Go out and demolish it.’ And Senator Joyce is right up there in this game. He is not interested. Those opposite are not interested. They want to wreck the NBN. They do not want people in Willunga to get genuine fast broadband. They do not want people in Townsville to get fast broadband. They do not want people in Armidale to get fast broadband. They do not want people in Brunswick to get fast broadband, and they do not want people in Kiama Downs to get fast broadband, because that is where it is being rolled out—just like in Tasmania. You want to pretend to those people in Tasmania that you can keep the network— (Time expired)