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

This is a very exciting development for Tasmania that will transform the state. I note the comments of Professor Larry Smarr, one of the fathers of the internet and an adviser to President Obama on the development of a US broadband plan. He said yesterday:

It is so fun to come over … from the United States and see an advanced country thinking strategically about its future and building a nation-building … platform like the NBN.

He went on to say:

I think the United States is frankly going to be learning a great deal from Australia in the days to come about what it is like to be a 21st-century country.