Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Communications and the Arts, Senator Fifield. In 2013, Prime Minister Turnbull promised every small business would have access to minimum download speeds of 25 megabits per second by the end of 2016. The latest Akamai State of the internet report revealed that peak average speeds are just 11 megabits per second, slower than speeds in Thailand, Kenya and Bulgaria. How are Australian small businesses supposed to compete globally when they are enduring some of the poorest speeds in the developed world?