Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Deputy Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

I will take that interjection from Senator Carr saying, 'You have to turn it on.' We are turning them on; it is the Labor Party that never turned on one—not one. We are seeing them rolled out at Carlisle River, Deniliquin, Clarke Creek, Ajana, Drake—the list goes on and on. The Labor Party cannot point to one town that has received better mobile phone coverage across the country under them, under the previous Labor government. It is an absolute indictment of them when we look at the comparisons: square kilometres of new coverage being delivered—by the coalition 162,000, Labor zero; black spots being fixed—3,000 under us, Labor zero; dollars invested while in government—by the coalition $220 million, Labor zero. I table the 499 base stations funded under round 1 and also the record of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd Labor government of mobile phone black spot delivery.