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

I said ‘perhaps’. I am sure that some of the people sitting near you privately support this bill. Senator Joyce, it will be only be a few short weeks. This bill is not about the business case of the National Broadband Network. You say, ‘We must have this information,’ but that is what you have said about five other pieces of information and, when you got it, it made no difference; you found a new reason to oppose the bill. It is hard to take your claims seriously, although you are far more diligent at looking into these issues than many of those opposite, and you do, after all, know the difference between operating expenses and capex expenses.