Deborah O'Neill (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I am drawing attention to the role of Mr Turnbull, the current Prime Minister, as a supposed supporter of innovation and of small business. We have heard him say, 'There's never been a more exciting time to be Australian,' except if you live on the Central Coast or in the Newcastle area, which is where I come from in the great state of New South Wales, where we have the impact of Malcolm's vision for the country rolling out on the ground day-by-day, in a very, very flawed manner.

Indeed, at a recent hearing, Senator Conroy described how, in the Newcastle area, the quote to get the proper connection of fibre to the premise to a local small business was $10,000. You do not have to trust what I am saying here. If you go onto the nbn co website and click across a couple of tabs at the top, you will find language relating to the dodgy version of what they are trying to call the NBN. I prefer to call it to the MTM: Malcolm Turnbull's mess. That is what they are inflicting on small businesses right across the coast.