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

I am delighted to inform the Senate that the Gillard government's digital switchover program is making a real difference to the lives of people in regional Australia where we have commenced switching off analog TV. One of the key features of the government's digital switchover program is that we have finally brought viewers in regional and remote Australia access to the same number of TV channels as are available in capital cities—something long thought impossible and certainly never attempted by those opposite. Last week we turned off the analog signals in regional Victoria. More than 455,000 households across the state have made the move to digital-only television. We have had less than 100 complaints in the five days since the switch. (Time expired)