House debates

Tuesday, 27 February 2018

Questions without Notice

Broadband

2:28 pm

Photo of Paul FletcherPaul Fletcher (Bradfield, Liberal Party, Minister for Urban Infrastructure and Cities) Share this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Opposition is quoted as saying that Mr Turnbull says Australian families do not need a first-grade NBN but is happy to use one for his own suburb. In other words, he's saying that the Prime Minister is getting first-rate NBN over the HFC. It is certainly true that the HFC offers a first-rate broadband service.

Now, what does the member for Greenway say on the same topic? Her Facebook page, on 11 February, says: 'Second-rate HFC'. Labor cannot even decide what their views about the HFC are. It's first-rate, according to the Leader of the Opposition, or it's second-rate, according to the member for Greenway. What was Labor's policy on the HFC for the 2016 election? 'Under Labor the rollout of HFC will continue.' Isn't that interesting? Labor plans to do exactly the same thing with HFC as the coalition does.

We know that the member for Greenway has form on this. Remember that she was the one who claimed that an Akamai survey about broadband in Kenya was in some way relevant to be compared to Australia. There are 200,000 people in Kenya who have a broadband service. There was another great contribution from that member when she quoted an Ipsos survey which she said found Australia ranks lowest for broadband satisfaction. In that same Ipsos survey 19 per cent of Australians rated the current quality of nuclear infrastructure to generate energy in Australia as very or fairly good. That's the kind of reputable survey that this member is quoting. They'll say anything on the NBN; we're delivering it.

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