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

I congratulate the senator on getting a question on the National Broadband Network! It is quite amazing! I am sure you will assist me in the course of my answer. Telstra have remediated, I understand, over 120,000 pits, and there have been notices or incidents reported to Comcare—I think, 29, of which a number have nothing to do with the National Broadband Network. So, even if you add those in, that is about 0.02 per cent.

Let me be very clear about this: not one shortcut is acceptable. There are no shortcuts here when it comes to dealing with asbestos. Everyone is required to follow the rules—