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

Apart from the jobs created in places like Prysmian, Corning and Warren & Brown, the NBN is a massive engineering exercise. NBN has contracted with leading firms like Transfield, Silcar, Syntheo, VisionStream and Siemens for the construction of the NBN. Today those contractors employ more than 1,000 workers to build the National Broadband Network. At peak there will be more than 16,000 private sector workers building the fibre network alone. Those contractors will be installing the fibre being manufactured at Corning and Prysmian. And you will know when the NBN is being installed when you see these contractors pulling this green fibre cable through the Telstra ducts. Only one thing can threaten that. (Time expired)