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

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Why is the Howard government holding back billions of dollars worth of investment in the infrastructure of the future while Australia is left with the infrastructure of the past, condemning millions of Australians to 256 kilobits per second—this government’s preferred speed for broadband? When will you commit to making the changes in attitude and leadership required to catch up with the rest of the world in this important area of infrastructure and try to match Labor’s 12 megabit proposal?