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

and then only by 2013, Senator Abetz. Under Labor, the remaining 25 per cent will be left stranded without any broadband service. I repeat my clear challenge to Mr Rudd and the Labor Party to provide costings, coverage maps and technical information about their broadband proposal for the full scrutiny of the Australian public. I do not think they can and I think that is their problem. It has been 89 days since the Labor Party put out a plan and nothing more than a press release. I say to the Labor Party: if you are really serious about this you ought to get on with standing up for a bit of public scrutiny. We are very happy to do this. We have a fully costed, fully deliverable plan for fast broadband to 99 per cent of the population. No-one will be left out. A hundred per cent of Australians will be covered by broadband.