Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

My question is also to the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Conroy, who would certainly know about saying one thing and doing another. I ask him whether it remains the minister’s ambition to sign a contract with the successful tenderer for the National Broadband Network project before the end of March, as he has indicated, and prior to the establishment of a regulatory framework which presumably will require legislation to be considered, debated and passed by this parliament.