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

The coalition’s introduction is just another of a long line of stunts designed to cover up their failed 20th broadband policy and their lack of a current broadband policy by demanding that we send the NBN off for a cost-benefit analysis. If the federal Liberals were serious about ensuring that Australians got access to the world’s best-class broadband network they would be supporting the National Broadband Network, not—as they have been doing—moving to defer, moving to delay, seeking to use the Senate to block. What have you got against the people of Willunga? Why don’t you want the people in Willunga, Senator Bernardi, to have a world-class broadband system? Why do you hate them so much?