Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

This may come as a surprise to some people, but you cannot necessarily take the construction that The Sydney Morning Herald or The Age puts on something as necessarily accurate. But the good news is that the NBN rollout is going well. 1.8 million households have the opportunity to connect to the NBN. There are currently about 820,000 premises that have elected to do so. I can share with you that under the previous government only 51,000 premises activations had occurred. Fifty-one thousand under Labor and 820,000 under the coalition—