Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate take note of the document.

The Telstra Sale Co. Ltd Report for 2007-08 reminds us of the failed National Broadband Network proposal of the current federal Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Conroy. Telstra has said that had the OPEL contract gone ahead it would have been operational by now. That means that people in the vast state of Queensland currently do not have the ability to access broadband services to the extent they would have if the OPEL contract had gone ahead.