Ann Sudmalis (Gilmore, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Today is an exciting today. For more than two years now we have been wondering about what is going to happen with the NBN, with an extended delivery notice of 2019, 2021, 2024 and so on. But now, today, we know that an extra 43,000 homes are going to have the National Broadband Network towards the end of 2016. It is just an amazing announcement that we are able to make. It is going to be a mix of technology, from fibre to the premise and fibre to the node to fixed wireless—38,000 for fibre to the node and almost 5,000 for fixed wireless.

The people of Gilmore will be absolutely thrilled—from a patchwork of rollout plans to a lovely plan of sequential development. More than 14,000 are going into the outer Nowra suburbs, over 8,000 going into the Shellharbour suburbs and 10,000 going into the Bay and Basin area. Sussex Inlet will be pleased with 2,000, Callala Bay with 1,900 and the Gerringong and Gerroa area with almost 1,700. Congratulations on the planning. Malcolm Turnbull has done a phenomenal job. A number of houses in the local area will be getting fixed wireless—like Bawley Point, Kiama, Shoalhaven Heads, St Georges Basin and Ulladulla. The residents there are going to be very thrilled about that. There is more to be done, because the southern Shoalhaven still has not hit. So I need to lobby for them as well.

Ewen Jones (Herbert, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! In accordance with standing order 43, the time for members' statements has concluded.