Nick Champion (Wakefield, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I hear the member opposite cry out 'flexibility'. We said we were going to have 'fibre to the premise'. That took a lot of planning and a lot of action. We put in place the great fibre network, the backbone.

Ms Rishworth interjecting—

As the member for Kingston says, removing Telstra as the arbiter of the copper network and forming the National Broadband Network was probably the most significant bit of microeconomic reform we have seen. So Labor put in place all the architecture that we are now debating.

As we know, when those opposite came to power—

Mr Frydenberg interjecting—

I hear my friend 'the colt from Kooyong'. We know about his leadership ambitions.

Mr Frydenberg interjecting—

You might be the next Prime Minister, Josh. You might be the next Liberal Prime Minister. Hope springs eternal for the colt from Kooyong. We know of the great ambitions of the branch members and indeed his own expectations for himself.

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