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

Sorry, Mr Deputy President; I accept your admonishment. Senator Joyce has delivered the Beta option instead of the VHS option. Australians who live in regional and rural Australia, the mil-lions of families who are going to be trapped in this cul-de-sac, will not forgive you for trapping them in this area. The minister has demonstrated that she has no grasp whatso-ever. Do you know what the minister said the other night? When challenged by Kerry O’Brien on the 7.30 Report, the minister said that fibre is affected by the number of users. It is actually so embarrassing you do not know what to say next. The minister for technology has not got a clue.