Linda Reynolds (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

by those opposite in this chamber. It was an approach that was a complete and abject failure. Under Labor, the NBN was a complete and unmitigated disaster. After six years of Labor—I'll say it again—51,000 users were connected to the NBN in six years. That amounts to two per cent of premises in six years. Labor's failed fibre-to-the-premises NBN policy would have cost $30 billion and taken six to eight years longer to deliver. This would have increased broadband bills by up to $43 a month, or $500 per year, per household. Labor paid $6 billion for the NBN to pass just three per cent of Australian houses. Now, under us, more than 10 million homes and businesses are available to be connected.