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

I am not sure that where government agencies secure their services is actually relevant, and I am not sure I could get you that information in the near future even if I tried. If agencies want to become carriers, they can, just as they have always been able to under your legislation, Senator Macdonald. If a government department did acquire a licence or resupplied, it could acquire an NBN wholesale service and then transform it. It could only buy a wholesale service, because NBN will only sell wholesale services.