Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

Twenty-four hours and that was the best you can come up with? Twenty-four hours to come up with a policy, talk about the National Broadband Network, talk even about media policy—at least for the last few days you have been on the media policy; you have actually been on policy. But, Mr President, those opposite are dredging the bottom of the barrel. We have already seen this morning a press conference—through you, Mr President, I draw your attention, Senator Brandis, to the press conference—that the foreign affairs minister held in New York or, I think, Washington. He is on his way to New York now. In Washington he came on the ABC and he said the report was completely untrue.