Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

As I was saying, we expect to leverage an additional $100 million from the private sector and to see 250 to 300 new towers being built. But, as responsible economic managers, we are doing everything we can to leverage every dollar investment from other governments, as well as from the private sector, with our funding. It is a great measure of the success of the program and the vision of Premier Napthine. He has committed an additional $40 million to ensure that we are able to extend mobile coverage in Victoria even further.

I remind the Senate again that, in six years of federal Labor, not a dollar was spent to deliver services to areas of Victoria that do not have adequate access to mobile services. It takes a coalition government in Canberra and a coalition government in Spring Street to see that rural and regional Victoria get the deal they deserve.