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

The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy performed an analysis of the detailed testing and mapping undertaken by OPEL. It determined that the OPEL network would cover only 72 per cent of identified underserved premises within its agreed coverage area.

Those opposite have no broadband policy. Instead, they have the legacy of 18 failed policies in 11½ wasted years. They are too lazy to engage in any policy development. They hanker after a policy. They have failed their own criteria. They have failed miserably. To continue to mislead the Australian public does them no credit. (Time expired)