Helen Coonan (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

The only thing I agree with in the proposition that was put in that supplementary question is that always with telecommunications we need the ability to scale up. And, whilst I have said and indicated that the current state of these broadband take-ups is obviously satisfactory, it will not be as the appetite for broadband grows. And so you need to invest for the future, which this government is doing, ensuring that in underserved commercial areas, where people would otherwise not be able to get metro-comparable services, they will be able to under this government. We are doing so with an infrastructure rollout—a big infrastructure build—that will be invested in such a way that 100 per cent of the population will be able to get broadband, not just 98 per cent in about five to 12 years time.