Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

If the senator is concerned about taxes and competitiveness, I look forward to him denouncing the royalty increase from Premier Newman, which, as has been outlined very clearly by the Queensland Resources Council and other mining companies, will cost jobs. So I look forward to him denouncing that. I suspect his position will be, certainly in public, complete silence when it comes to that issue. I also look forward to him backing the NBN because I am reliably advised from my left—that is geographically speaking, of course—by Senator Conroy that Singapore has a fibre-to-the-home network and I look forward, therefore, to Senator Sinodinos and others who understand the importance of broadband to the productivity of the economy supporting much more forcefully the National Broadband Network.