Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Conroy. Having embarrassingly withdrawn the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Communications Fund) Bill 2008 from the Notice Paper last week while you were away, will the government now give a commitment to the people of rural and regional Australia that it will not raid the $2 billion Communications Fund? Further, having withdrawn this bill, will the minister explain how the government now intends to fund its $4.7 billion national broadband network?