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

ouldn't it, how many services were active in the electorate of Newcastle when Labor left office in 2013. What was that number? Was it a thousand?

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No. Was it a hundred?

Government members interjecting—

No. Was it 10? No, it was actually six. There were six services in operation in the electorate of Newcastle when this hopeless rabble left office, and they presume to lecture us about NBN delivery. They made broad, big, sweeping promises—but there were six people in the electorate of Newcastle able to get a service on 9 September 2013. I'll tell you something else: not one of them was on fixed broadband; it was all satellite. Six people! And this mob thinks that the Australian people are going to be sufficiently credulous as to trust them to deliver an NBN rollout. You must think they are complete mugs. I'll tell you what: the Australian people are not complete mugs. They know your track record was hopeless. You promised and promised, and what you delivered was absolutely pathetic. You left a shambolic mess, and we are getting on with fixing it up. That is why there are 6½ million premises able to connect. Another thing you don't understand is that we're determined to deliver customer service of a good, acceptable level, and that is why, if there are issues, as there are in HFC, we are responsibly getting on with fixing them up—total anathema to Labor's spin culture, but that is our approach. We are about delivery. (Time expired)

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