Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Most bad projects only get worse; this one is getting better. It is getting better because we changed the management, we changed the board, we gave them the flexibility to get on with the job. It will be completed for $30 billion less and between six and eight years sooner than it would have been, had Labor's original plan been continued with

That is not my forecast—that is the forecast of the management of nbn co who for the first time actually know what this project will cost. The reality is that at the time of the last election the nbn co management, and therefore the Labor government, did not know how much it was costing them to connect premises with fibre. The information they had—

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