One of the things that people have recognised during Covid is that fibre is better than copper and that people need high-speed broadband in order to for students to study, in order for businesses to operate, in order for people to work from home.
And the fact is, people would get it when this government trashed the NBN model to move to a mix of fibre and copper and depended upon luck of the draw. Some people have access to 21st-century technology, but too many households don’t …
And we know that we have a big technological repair job as a result of the negative policies of this government, who when they came to office, of course, said that high-speed fibre was a waste. They thought it was all about downloading videos.
We know that it’s not. We know that it’s about healthcare, it’s about education services, it’s about businesses being able to operate in the 21st century.