Kate Lundy (ACT, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Finance, Senator Cormann, in his capacity as shareholder minister for the NBN. I refer to media reports of advice prepared by NBN Co. during the caretaker period for the incoming government, which states:

… it is unlikely that NBN Co will meet the 2016 deadline to upgrade the fixed network to enable Australians to have minimum download speeds of 25Mbps.

I note also Ziggy Switkowski's evidence to a Senate committee last week that '2016 as a deadline is very, very demanding.' Will the minister confirm that the government will meet its promise that by 2016 every Australian household and business will have access to broadband speeds of at least 25 megabits per second, or will this be another broken promise?