Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Industry) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Minister, is it not true that the leaked email from your office made it perfectly clear that it was not possible to complete all the maps, that only the 40 electoral maps—the top marginal coalition seats—were required to be completed by the time of the cabinet meeting? Isn’t it true that the minister actually walked into cabinet with a copy of Malcolm Mackerras’s electoral pendulum and the maps of the 40 most marginal coalition seats and got the endorsement of her package on that basis? Isn’t the broadband package, like everything else this government does, driven by the need for a short-term political fix rather than a plan for the next generation?