Linda Reynolds (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I too rise to take note of Minister Fifield's answer. After nearly four years in this place, the chutzpah of those opposite never ceases to amuse me, talking about the NBN and other projects that they implemented, developed and completely stuffed up. The list is long: pink batts, school halls, unfunded NDIS programs, and the NBN is yet another one of their failures. I remind those opposite of exactly the mess you left us. Here we have probably one of the largest infrastructure projects ever in this country—and how was it developed and planned? It wasn't on the back of a wine-stained coaster in a VIP jet with some great idea your colleague Stephen Conroy had, 'Let's do this NBN'?