Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Just last week I also announced that the Victor Harbour link in South Australia has been completed. That is another 129 kilometres of fibre backbone with the potential to benefit a further 27,000 people. This was delivered, again, on time and on budget. We have routes in Darwin, south-west Gippsland and Broken Hill on track to be completed at the end of the year—again, on time and on budget. There are 109 communities across the length and breadth of this country that will benefit from this, despite the opposition of those in the coalition.