Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The Labor Party keeps wanting to verbal me on this. Let me read to you what was said in our policy document:

Our goal is for every household and business to have access to broadband with a download data rate of between 25 and 100 megabits per second by late 2016.

The timetable for the completion of the NBN in our policy was stated, at page 7, I recall, as 2019, so the proposition that it was our policy and our promise to complete the NBN by 2016 is simply not consistent with the policy document that we produced. Honourable members know that, and they also know that, when we got into government, we discovered the full extent of the train wreck Labor had created, and we have been sorting it out. I'll ask the minister to add to his earlier answer about the electorate of Newcastle.

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