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

The National Broadband Network is the vehicle to enable the full structural separation of Telstra. The ACCC decision paves the way for the decommissioning of Telstra's copper network and the progressive migration of customers onto the NBN—unlike those opposite, whose spokesperson today blogged that he is going to direct NBN Co. to buy the copper network. Talk about renationalising! You are ordering NBN to buy it back—to buy back the copper. Read his blog today!