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

My question is to the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Conroy. I ask the minister: is it true that more than 12 months ago Labor cancelled the coalition’s national rural and regional broadband project, OPEL? Is it also true that Labor had no immediate practical alternative to this broadband proposal? Is it also true, Minister, that this network could have delivered new and affordable high-speed broadband services to more than 460,000 underserviced households and businesses across my state of Queensland in 2009? I ask the minister: how many more years will Queenslanders have to wait before Labor delivers new broadband services to them?