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

by leave—I move:

That the Senate take note of the statement.

That was perhaps one of the more graceless apologies that one could get when one has been shown to have completely misled the Australian public. Unfortunately, it is not a one-off occurrence. What we have seen in recent months from this minister is that she is a serial misleader of the Australian public. She misled 27 tenderers for the Broadband Connect program when she only told one tenderer that there was more money available than had been advertised as part of the tender process.