Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Education) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, I am quite sure you would not like to direct me on what to say. It is funny but, under that, regional Australia would have had an improvement. Under the Labor government, regional Australia has not had an improvement. I am not a rocket scientist and perhaps I am a bit of a sceptic but, when I look at the whole scenario, I think, 'Under a coalition government regional Australia would be getting better telecommunications and currently under the Labor government regional Australia is not getting better telecommunications.' It seems like a bit of a no-brainer to me. Despite all this talk and all of this rhetoric about regional Australia getting better services and better telecommunications from this NBN, there is virtually nothing there yet—and it has been years and years.

I am sure the minister will stand up and say, 'Oh, yes, but we are progressing and it is all going to this end point.' I can guarantee the chamber that the minister will take the opportunity to have a very eloquent spray at me personally, given my history with telecommunications.