Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I am very pleased Senator Reynolds has asked that question, because the capacity to hit all these milestones is a direct function of the multitechnology mix approach that the coalition has adopted. What we had from our predecessors was zealotry and theology; the approach that we have taken is one that is technology agnostic. We want to give all Australians access to the NBN as soon as possible. As yesterday's report in some of the newspapers notes, the fibre-to-the-node portion of the NBN was launched less than two years ago, and since then NBN has been averaging more than 100,000 additional premises ready for service each and every month. By making the NBN available to Australians sooner, we are unlocking the digital productivity which only comes about when the whole nation has it, which they will have much sooner under us.