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

I might say nothing arouses passion in the electorate like utter nonsense, and that is what we have been hearing from the other side. People in regional and rural Australia know this more than anyone else because under the Labor Party's rollout of the NBN, we were neglected—as we were neglected when it came to the rollout of the mobile-phone towers. In six years of Labor, what did we get? A big, fat zero. What were we going to get from them for the NBN? We were going to get a system that was rolled out into regional and rural Australia last, and we were going to get it in 2025-2026.

I am happy to use my electorate as an example, but let's go to what the shadow minister had to say at the outset. He talked about a blow-out in costs, but what has happened to his memory? He had the audacity to talk about a blow-out in costs. What happened under Labor? Huge blow-outs in cost. But what if we go back to the Labor regime? We are talking about $74 billion-$84 billion and completion in 2026. How can you get up here with a straight face and say this?

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