Michelle Rowland (Greenway, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Communications) Share this | Hansard source

for the benefit of the member, I will set out the different elements of our plan to do so. The government's election commitment of $40 million for the Improving Mobile Coverage Round of the Mobile Black Spot Program is to address mobile connectivity concerns at 54 target locations around Australia. The locations were based on feedback from communities to local members, councils and mobile carriers, including reported coverage and capacity concerns; natural disaster risks; areas affected by bushfire; and safety along transport routes.

The important thing here is that these were election commitments. They were incorporated in Labor's pre-election costings. In other words, we are delivering on our election commitments because we funded them in our budget. Now—

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