House debates

Thursday, 29 October 2020

Questions without Notice

Mobile Black Spot Program

3:13 pm

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

in regional and remote Australia safe from bushfires in terms of supporting public funding to additional mobile base stations. From this side of the House there has been $380 million over 879 base stations funded under this program. The other side of the House spent zero. They delivered zero. They committed zero. I'll tell you what: 000 has been a longstanding well-known number in Australian telecommunications—it took this side to turn it into a policy in relation to mobile coverage in the bush.

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