Andrew Southcott (Boothby, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The NBN Co today released their national rollout plan to June 2016. There are a large number of suburbs in the electorate of Boothby where the fixed line build will commence over the next 18 months, including Belair, Blackwood, Colonel Light Gardens, Lower Mitcham, Panorama, Pasadena, St Marys and Torrens Park. There are approximately 27,800 premises in Boothby that will see the NBN build commence in their area in the next 18 months.

Compare this with the performance of the previous government. They had six years, they talked a big game and they did very little. Other than a pilot site at Willunga in South Australia, in six years they connected only 69 brownfield premises in the entire state of South Australia. This will be welcomed by constituents in my electorate who are keen to see high-speed broadband. I will continue to fight for residents in Aberfoyle Park and Flagstaff Hill who do want to see high-speed broadband, but we do have half the suburbs in the electorate of Boothby undergoing a build over the next 18 months.