House debates

Tuesday, 27 February 2018

Questions without Notice

Broadband

2:38 pm

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

I thank the member for her question, but once again she's drawing a contrast with the HFC, which is, as we've consistently said, a first-rate form of broadband. Labor seems to be complaining that the HFC is able to deliver a speed of 100 megabits per second—as it is, I'm pleased to say—for the Prime Minister, and for many thousands of other customers—411,000 HFC customers, all of them able to access and many of them choosing to access 100 megabits per second.

It does raise the question: what is Labor's plan for the NBN? What is Labor's plan for the NBN? We really have no idea. In the 2016 election campaign, we know that, despite their heated rhetoric now, they stated that they intended to continue with the HFC rollout. They also claimed that they were going to deliver an additional—

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