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

My question is to Senator Coonan, the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. Is the minister aware of an email sent by a member of her staff to her department asking for electorate maps to be made available for the recent cabinet discussion on today’s broadband announcement? Doesn’t the email direct public servants to urgently prepare media information kits for today’s announcement for 40 priority government held marginal seats? Doesn’t this show that the government’s broadband announcement is nothing more than a pre-election political stunt to shore up votes in marginal seats?