House debates Questions without Notice
Broadband
Malcolm Turnbull Wentworth, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Communications and Broadband
2:11 pm
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer her to the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ figures that show only 43 per cent of households on incomes of $40,000 a year or less have access to the internet at home. Given that lack of income, not lack of access, is the biggest barrier to internet availability, why is the government building a $43 billion national broadband network monopoly that will, as the McKinsey study demonstrates, raise prices and make the internet more expensive and less affordable?
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