Tim Hammond (Perth, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

And, of that $50 billion, what has he done? He has promised—he has not even delivered, but he has promised—$7.4 billion of that to the big four banks. What are we doing in relation to the big four banks? We want to hold them to account by calling them in to a royal commission. That is what we are doing, and this Prime Minister has done nothing.

The Prime Minister has failed to deliver, in the last 12 months, anything meaningful at all as far as the National Broadband Network goes. In my home town, in the federal electorate of Perth, not one single home has got or will get the National Broadband Network in the next term of government. Mums and dads in the federal electorate of Perth do not think 'NBN' stands for 'National Broadband Network'; they think it stands for 'not before never', because we are never going to see it. We are never going to see it under this Prime Minister if his last 12 months is anything to go by.

In relation to infrastructure, the member for Bradfield boasted about infrastructure projects that he says he has delivered. In my home town of Perth, there are only three infrastructure projects of the 76 promised. Seventy-six of those projects are being delivered into Liberal and coalition electorates. That is an abject failure of infrastructure in this term of government. We are not left with a single thing in the last 12 months. Not so far, not so good. (Time expired)

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