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

Thank you, Madam Acting Deputy President. I accept your ruling. Senator Fifield made a broad range of points right across the portfolio, but the one thing that the other side do not want to do is use the extension of hours in this chamber to actually talk about how people are being affected and how people are going to have their broadband experiences improved—cheaper prices and faster speeds. They do not want an extension of hours, because they know they cannot justify denying Tasmanians. They know they cannot justify denying Western Australians, and they know—