Stephen Jones (Whitlam, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Development and Infrastructure) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Today is the day when Malcolm Turnbull—

Mark Coulton (Parkes, Deputy-Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! Order!

Stephen Jones (Whitlam, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Development and Infrastructure) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

when the Prime Minister should come into the parliament and show some humility about the national broadband disaster. It's not a day for lectures on how extremely excellent he is. It's not a day for lectures on how exceedingly smart he is. It's not a day for him to tell us about how well the NBN rollout is going. It's not a day to brag about the fact that the Prime Minister has now rolled it out to five million houses when the little gift he's left at the majority of those five million houses is a broadband service that doesn't work as well as the one he replaced but has cost us $49 billion.

There is a 160 per cent increase in the number of NBN complaints, but the Prime Minister says, 'No big deal.' There are 6.5 per cent of premises getting no broadband in their rollout area, but the Prime Minister says, 'No big deal.' Small businesses are shelling out $9,000 on top of the money they're losing in revenue and the Prime Minister says, 'No big deal.'

The people of Australia deserve much better than what they're getting. While he's banging on about the lived experience, what the people of Australia want is an internet and phone service that just damn works.