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

But it is no more embarrassing than having a shadow minister asking about the laws of physics—because this question is actually about the laws of physics. Unless, as commentators and the shadow minister are suggesting, somebody has recently discovered something that is faster than the speed of light, which is how fibre optics works—unless wireless technologies suddenly have become faster than the speed of light—the question is an embarrassing nonsense. It is really that simple: the speed of light. It is the laws of physics, and no amount of posturing and not understanding the laws of physics—