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

I accept your admonishment; I am being provoked and responding as I should not. You are correct; I should be ignoring the fools opposite. But, in my own defence, they are being very provocative.

Let us be very clear about this. The government’s National Broadband Network is not just being delivered on the ground in Tasmania; it is being delivered on the ground around Australia right now today. We have live customers in Tasmania.