Senate debates

Thursday, 22 March 2007

Personal Explanations

3:33 pm

Photo of Ron BoswellRon Boswell (Queensland, National Party) Share this | | Hansard source

I seek leave to make a personal explanation as I claim to have been misrepresented.

Leave granted.

The ABC news today had a presenter saying:

Coalition senator Ron Boswell says there is no need for a broadband upgrade.

That is not true. They quoted me as saying:

We’ve got adequate broadband for the people out there.

I said those words, but I was adding to a previous answer in which I indicated that the government had put up money to make sure that everyone gets broadband. I was then asked a question about the broadband service that will be provided, and that is what I based my comment on. My comment was accurate because the broadband provided will be adequate. The full transcript of the doorstop tells the whole story. We would not be putting billions of dollars into it if we thought it was adequate.