House debates

Thursday, 23 June 2011

Questions without Notice

Broadband

3:11 pm

Photo of Malcolm TurnbullMalcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Communications and Broadband) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister, who only a year ago said that the government had lost its way. Given that the largest group of Australians without access to the internet are households with incomes of $40,000 a year or less, how can she claim the government is finding its way by today agreeing to pay billions to Telstra and Optus to eliminate any competition with the NBN, so that it can charge higher and higher prices for broadband—as its own corporate plan reveals—making the digital divide deeper and more unjust?

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