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

The claim the honourable member made, as I said yesterday, is completely false. What I said was that our objective was that, by 2016, everyone would have access to 25 megabits per second, not that the NBN would be completed by 2016. Of course, people have access to broadband in many different ways. Anyone on an HFC network has had access to 25 megabits for years, and many have had access to that on ADSL. So the honourable member, once again, just as he did with 'Mediscare', is misrepresenting and is telling falsehoods. He thinks he can get away with putting words in other people's mouths and, if he says it often enough, people might believe him.

But, on the real issue with his shiftiness, just consider this. Consider his companion there, the member for Isaacs. This is the man who has gone after the member for Kooyong. He has been out there arguing that Josh Frydenberg is a citizen of the country that, but for the arrival of the Red Army, would have pushed his mother into a gas chamber.

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