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

Yes, I have seen some media reports that the opposition has come up with yet another broadband plan. That would be their 20th in 15 years. They privatised Telstra as a vertically integrated monopoly. Now they claim to support the structural separation of Telstra, but they have no plan to deliver it. They want to consign Australians to an indefinite future using the same old copper network, and they will not explain how they are going to deliver their 12 megabits to everyone on the copper network. They think Australians deserve a second rate broadband service, like those residents in Willunga, like those residents in Armidale, like those residents in Townsville. They have to explain to them why they cannot have a world-class network. (Time expired)