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

Unfortunately for Senator Birmingham, Senator Joyce has let the cat out of the bag. Senator Joyce came into the chamber and said, ‘We are not interested in the details of this; we just want to destroy the NBN, because if we destroy the NBN we destroy the government.’ He just could not help himself. Those opposite are not remotely interested in the business case and they are not remotely interested in the ACCC recommendations for the government; they are determined to do nothing more than demolish, oppose and wreck the National Broadband Network. They are on the public record not once but—when it was Senator Joyce’s contribution—twice, saying—(Time expired)