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

I think that has to be a new record: 40 minutes. The Leader of the Opposition in the Senate and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate spoke for 40 minutes and did not mention one single policy of their own—in 40 minutes. I am not surprised that they did not, because if they were going to mention a policy they might have to talk about their new NBN policy. Apart from it being 'demolish', apart from it being 'no', recently Mr Turnbull has given a number of speeches.

We have now seen Citigroup give us a report on exactly what they find the costings to be of Mr Turnbull and the opposition's plan. Let me take you to the Citigroup report on the opposition's policy that they will take to the next election. The Citigroup report called the opposition's plan 'quick and dirty'.