Patrick Secker (Barker, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

In fact I was coming directly back to it. I was going to say next that many of the same rural and regional Australians now miss out on the broadband revolution, and that is where the connection was.

I note with some interest that this bill imposes an obligation on carriers and utilities to provide specified information to authorised information officers for a period of 10 years. As if the projected rollout over an eight-year period were not delay enough, we now have a provision for a further two years delay. After 10 years there will be many parts of my electorate not covered with the broadband revolution. In terms of revolutions, that has got to be about the slowest on record! Napoleon Bonaparte once said, ‘A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.’ Labor has certainly found its bayonets and they are firmly fixed on rural and regional Australians whose dream of fast and reliable broadband has just been garrotted.

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