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

The Rudd government has a clear plan for Australia’s broadband future that now has widespread support across the industry. On the other hand, the opposition has said they will shut down the NBN. Today the Age editorial said:

Building the NBN is a visionary task whose historic significance will outstrip even that of infrastructure projects such as the Snowy Mountains Scheme …

Unfortunately, as the Age also notes:

A grasp of how the NBN might transform Australian life seems, however, to have eluded Opposition Leader Tony Abbott …

Australians, present and future, deserve better from the alternative government. The opposition’s continued failure to understand the importance of broadband would wreak havoc with Australia’s economic future. (Time expired)