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

Senator Joyce, of course, but he is moving to Armidale so he can get access to the National Broadband Network. He is so desperate to get to the NBN he wants to move states, that is why he is trying to pretend that he wants to challenge Tony Windsor. What he really wants is to get on the NBN straight away. In Queensland, we have communities in Burbank, Wynnum West, Fortitude Valley, Ditmar, Bowen, Rita Island, Samsonvale, Helensvale, Buderim, Glasshouse Mountains, Taroom, Abbeywood, Monto, Bucca, Mount Perry, Boynedale—I could go on.

Senator Mason does not want to hear the truth. He does not want to hear about all the Queensland communities that are today using the National Broadband Network because those opposite are going to turn it off, they are going to stop it, close it down and abolish it. That means to all of these people in all of these communities that they are going to pay higher prices. Every single one of these people is going to—