Rob Mitchell (McEwen, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Goldstein says that that is not true. I would be happy for you to leave your little inner-city coven and come out to anywhere around the outskirts of Melbourne and say: 'We didn't fail. You haven't got broadband.' Why? Because everything that you did failed. Not one of them worked, and that is why these programs are being delivered now and people are screaming. I am happy for you, member for Goldstein, to write to your constituents and say, 'You don't want the NBN,' because, like the rest of your crew, you bag it. You say that it is not worth it and that it is too expensive, and then you bitch and whinge and carp and whine because it is not in your areas—you are absolute jokes.

Mr Robb interjecting—

We know about your ability to do these things. You are part of the financial team that got an auditor's fine because of your inability to tell the truth. While you sit there carping, whingeing and whining about the NBN we are actually getting on the ground and delivering it, and we are delivering it to places that would never have seen it under your government—never did and never will. You had 11 years and you did not do a thing. You sat there and did nothing; meanwhile Australia fell behind—

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