Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I have a supplementary question, noting and inviting the minister again to indicate to the Senate: does he stand by the 286,000 target? How does the minister reconcile his previous statements to the Senate that the rollout is ramping up when in fact there has been a significant collapse in the speed of the rollout this year? Is it correct, as recorded in CommsDay yesterday, that NBN Co. has on average passed just 140 premises per week this year but to meet the minister's promise they must increase that to over 12,500 per week for every week until 30 June?