Paul Fletcher (Bradfield, Liberal Party, Minister for Urban Infrastructure) Share this | Hansard source

after Labor in 2009 proposed they would get it done in eight years. And guess what? They didn't. They came nowhere near getting it done in eight years, and with every year they were in government they fell further and further behind. Of course the member can always bring forward instances in which a constituent had an unsatisfactory experience, and of course we will engage with that. The Minister for Communications has already responded to the member about two instances she raised this week with a commitment that work will be underway on one next month—the Rudolf Steiner School—and work will be underway on the other with the aim to have the premises connected by December of this year.

But when you look at the totality of this rollout, we inherited a chaotic mess from the Labor government—barely 50,000 premises able to connect. There are now over six million premises around the country that are able to connect, and we are on track to get this done because we are the party of delivery—unlike Labor, the party of empty promises that they never deliver on.

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