Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to comments made by the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy at the National Press Club when launching his first attempt at the National Broadband Network in 2007. He said: ‘We’re not proposing fibre to the home at this time’ because it is a ‘more expensive proposition’ and ‘there’s no point building something that people can’t afford to use.’ Why has the government suddenly decided that struggling families can now afford to pay upwards of $100 per month to access telephone and broadband services under the National Broadband Network, when less than three years ago even the minister said it was ‘expensive’ and ‘something people can’t afford to use’?

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