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

because your track record was dismal. Your track record was hopeless. What you delivered on the NBN was a pathetic joke. You claim to suggest that, if there were a change, somehow you'd do a better job. But the historical record does not lie. By June 2013, when you had promised to deliver 1.7 million, what you'd actually delivered was less than 20 per cent of that. That's not a high distinction. That's not a distinction. That's not a credit. That's not even a pass. That's a fail. That is a fail. And that is Labor's record of NBN failure.

They had six years of dismal NBN failure, and now they expect that the people of Bennelong will be so naive and so credulous as to believe that they've got a plan that's going to do better than the performance we are seeing under the Turnbull government, where 6½ million premises are now able to connect. What is their plan? We've got no idea what their plan is. Their plan at the last election was that they were going to deliver two million more premises with fibre and not spend an extra dollar. They were going to reinvent the rules of economics. It's a miracle! Magic pudding economics comes to the NBN. You have zero credibility on the NBN. Your track record— (Time expired)

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