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

I can, and it is hardly a fair comparison. If we simply take the numbers from NBN's weekly rollout report, which has been updated every single week since we came into government, total activations by 30 June 2011 were only 786. One year later, Labor had made the incredible progress of connecting a total of 13,000 premises! By June 2013, total connections stood at 70,100 nationwide.

I have mentioned the figures that have been achieved under this government. We now have the NBN available to 4.4 million premises. By 2020, the NBN will be complete. That is six to eight years sooner than would have been the case under those opposite at about $30 billion less in cost. We want all Australians to get the NBN as soon as possible and, under this government, they will.