Paul Fletcher (Bradfield, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

The policy context here is the starting point. When we came to government not one dollar of public money had been allocated to the provision of mobile coverage in regional and remote Australia for six years—not one dollar. We have committed $380 million. And I'll make the point that we did recently announce additional funding, because we're getting on with it. We have also announced $37 million for strengthening telecommunications against natural disasters, with $8 million going to temporary facilities, such as satellite COWs—cells on wheels—and satellite Road Muster trucks to be delivered by NBN. Some of those Road Muster trucks will be available before the end of this year.

Ms Templeman interjecting—

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