Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

Just to put some context around this question again: we inherited a project where more than $6 billion of taxpayers' money had been spent, but less than two per cent of Australian premises had been connected to fibre to the home. Of course we had a special ministerial visit for just about every single connection in the Northern Territory. No wonder Senator Wong was not able to balance the books when you have ministers going to switch on every single connection in the Northern Territory! Give us a break.

Mr Turnbull and I have done what we said we would do: we have initiated—