Warren Truss (Wide Bay, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government representing the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. Minister, given that none of the tenders submitted to build the national broadband network goes close to meeting the government’s election promise to provide fibre to the node to 98 per cent of the Australian population, what is the real cost of meeting the government’s guarantee to provide regional Australia with access to a world-class, fibre-to-the-node broadband network?

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