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

To draw on the question: I was lucky enough to recently travel to Mexico, the land of Mr Slim’s wonderful monopoly that he has run so effectively to make himself the world’s richest man. I have to tell you that I prefer our telecommunications system and how it works to Mr Slim’s any day of the week. I invite you to go to Mexico and try it yourself, Senator Macdonald. When it comes to the question of trying to find a new cloak to hide behind to delay rolling out to residents of Townsville, residents of Willunga, residents in Tasmania, residents in Kiama Downs and residents in Armidale, who have signed up in droves to get the National Broadband Network’s fibre-optic connection—87 per cent in Armidale, 84 per cent in Willunga and it goes on and on— (Time expired)