Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

Nowhere was Labor's under-delivery worse than in Western Australia. As of the election, there were just 75 premises connected to the brownfield fibre network in the west. Labor was not building a national broadband network; as those in the west know all too well, Labor was building an eastern states broadband network. Since the election, we have slowly been getting the rollout back on track. We have started construction in areas covering an additional 34,000 premises in Western Australia.

We are also investing $100 million in mobile black spots. Our colleague, the parliamentary secretary, the member for Bradfield, is doing an excellent job in getting that program underway. West Australians can be assured that this government, unlike those opposite, takes fixing communication black spots seriously. I say again that Western Australia deserves better than those opposite.