Paul Fletcher (Bradfield, Liberal Party, Minister for Urban Infrastructure) Share this | Hansard source

During his brief period as minister, as members would recollect from discussions in the House last week, in the four years between Kevin Rudd announcing the new NBN and Labor scuttling out of office, in the seat of Dobell the number of services on the fixed network in those four years went from zero to zero. Unsurprisingly, in his brief period as the minister, the member for Grayndler was asked some questions about how the Labor Party was administering the NBN. He said this in a press conference: 'You mightn't like the answer. We are rolling out the NBN as fast as it can be rolled out.' That's what he said: 'We are rolling out the NBN as fast as it can be rolled out.' Just a couple of months later they exited office with barely 50,000 premises able to connect. We now have well over six million premises able to connect and over two million that actually are connected. So when the shadow minister presumes to contrast this government's record of delivery of the NBN with Labor's shambolic and hopeless record, I say to her that we didn't want to start from where we did, but we have been getting on with the job, and over six million premises are now able to connect. That's very important.

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