Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Threats? Senator Conroy, Mr Clare and the collective of the Australian Labor Party are the threats. We know Labor's track record is appalling. We as a nation can not risk allowing this vital infrastructure project to go back into the hands of those opposite. The Australian Financial Review again today in its editorial says:

Here we go again. Labor's announcement it will reinvigorate the National Broadband fibre-optic-cable-to-every-home Network, but not share any details, or even admit that it will cost a lot more money than the current mix of technologies, should come as no surprise.

To quote the AFR again:

Labor has no credibility in this area.

All Mr Clare has to do is say when he is going to do it, how he is going to do it and how he is going to fund it, and we eagerly await that news.