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

There are 1.4 million premises in Australia which are able to get an NBN service on the hybrid fibre coax network built by Telstra and taken over by the NBN, and 411,000 of them are active. I would remind members opposite that in Avondale Heights, in the Leader of the Opposition's electorate, there are more than 2,000 premises connected to the NBN on the HFC. In the electorate of Watson there are 2,000 premises connected and in the electorate of McMahon there are 4,000 connected. All of those premises connected to HFC are able to get a 100 megabit per second product from the NBN. In fact, if they were on the Telstra network, they should have been able to get a 100 megabit per second product before the NBN took over the network.

The reality is that 7.2 million homes and businesses are in areas where the NBN has been switched on. There are over 3½ million premises currently connected. By 2020, Australia will be the first country of our size to make broadband access universal. As I said in my earlier answer, we are connecting more premises a month than Labor did in six years. In fact, there were over 59,000 new active services in the past fortnight alone, compared to 51,000 in total under Labor.

We know what the Leader of the Opposition is trying to do. He is trying to run his politics of envy, his faux class war. Anyone who wants to know what a fake he is as a class warrior only has to watch the video of his address to the CFMEU workers at Oaky. There he is, the great imposter, complaining about an industrial relations system that he created, and doing everything he can to encourage the militancy of people that threaten violence—

Ms Plibersek interjecting—

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