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

Thank you, Mr President. The single biggest risk to those jobs—the 16,000 and the hundreds and hundreds manufacturing fibre—is, of course, those opposite and the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Abbott. The Leader of the Opposition described the NBN as a 'great leap backwards'. He told the Sydney Institute, 'We won't keep Labor's NBN because there is no need for it.' The opposition will not even commit to a network that can deliver the 50-megabyte services the Victorian government says that 350,000 Victorians are demanding. Very simply, they want to build, as Citibank stated, a cheap and dirty network. A one-lane Sydney Harbour Bridge is all you are happy— (Time expired)