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

Thank you, Mr President, and, apologies, Senator Ludwig, that is 50 bucks—two for the year! It is no surprise that those opposite have only asked their second question about the NBN of me this year, because they have so little to actually campaign on that they are reduced to drawing irrelevant additions and subtractions about how many staff have left the NBN.

Those opposite do not want to know about the 758,000 homes that we will have under construction or completed by the end of this year. What we have here is a transparent attempt to try and smear the NBN management yet again. It was not good enough for Mr Turnbull, a man who knows a great deal about financing—how much did Malcolm Turnbull pay the HIH liquidators back—