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

I did not actually hear a question there, but I am happy to respond. Yet again, those opposite have got to explain to the people of Australia, because Senator Barnaby Joyce let the cat out of the bag last week. For all the pomposity from those opposite, Senator Joyce let the cat out of the bag when he said, ‘It’s not about the details; it’s about destroying the NBN. That will mean we can destroy the government.’ That is what Senator Joyce said last week. The cant and the hypocrisy which some of those opposite, particularly the questioners, like to display regularly in question time has been exposed—out of the mouth of Senator Joyce. You are not interested in transparency—