❓ Question regarding the Howard government's broadband plan's shortcomings in WA due to topography and Labor's superior plan for comprehensive broadband coverage.
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BROADBAND NETWORK - NATIONAL PLANS
The minister’s commitment to delivering world-class broadband is well known, but what can Western Australians expect from either the Howard government or from Kevin Rudd and Senator Conroy’s national broadband plan under Labor? Mr F.M. LOGAN
The minister’s commitment to delivering world-class broadband is well known, but what can Western Australians expect from either the Howard government or from Kevin Rudd and Senator Conroy’s national broadband plan under Labor? Mr F.M. LOGAN
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That is a very good question, although it is not the one that I had. Mr J.H.D. Day : Before you start the question, look up into the press gallery and you will see the level of interest. Mr E.S. Ripper : That is a measure of the opposition you provide. The SPEAKER : Order! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure the level of interjection from both sides of the house means that nobody wants this question time to continue. We are almost at that stage; any more mass interjections and we will be closing it down. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I point out to the member for Darling Range that the press have been gone since the Leader of the Opposition asked his first question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr F.M. LOGAN : I thank the member for her question, her role as my parliamentary secretary and her commitment and outstanding work with the information and communications technology sector. When the Howard government got its act together and announced its long overdue broadband plan, it must have assumed that Australia was full of lovely large, flat plains. It did not take into account the hills and mountains that affect wireless broadband. It has recently been revealed that the federal government’s $1 billion fixed wireless broadband network coverage will deliver to 50 per cent fewer people than initially claimed. It has done that by ignoring or being ignorant of the fact that wireless broadband has difficulty passing through mountains and hills, although, in fact, that is recognised by Senator Helen Coonan. On her department’s website, the government’s broadband coverage maps have recently added a disclaimer that states - · Depictions of WiMAX and other wireless coverage on these maps do not take into account local topographic features. . . . · The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts makes no guarantee about the suitability of these maps for any purpose by any person whatsoever. I am afraid that government members of Parliament have obviously not read that disclaimer on that website, because they have been using those maps to promote the federal government’s policy on broadband. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It is John Howard’s flat earth policy. Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: That is a very good question, although it is not the one that I had. Mr J.H.D. Day : Before you start the question, look up into the press gallery and you will see the level of interest. Mr E.S. Ripper : That is a measure of the opposition you provide. The SPEAKER : Order! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure the level of interjection from both sides of the house means that nobody wants this question time to continue. We are almost at that stage; any more mass interjections and we will be closing it down. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I point out to the member for Darling Range that the press have been gone since the Leader of the Opposition asked his first question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr F.M. LOGAN : I thank the member for her question, her role as my parliamentary secretary and her commitment and outstanding work with the information and communications technology sector. When the Howard government got its act together and announced its long overdue broadband plan, it must have assumed that Australia was full of lovely large, flat plains. It did not take into account the hills and mountains that affect wireless broadband. It has recently been revealed that the federal government’s $1 billion fixed wireless broadband network coverage will deliver to 50 per cent fewer people than initially claimed. It has done that by ignoring or being ignorant of the fact that wireless broadband has difficulty passing through mountains and hills, although, in fact, that is recognised by Senator Helen Coonan. On her department’s website, the government’s broadband coverage maps have recently added a disclaimer that states - · Depictions of WiMAX and other wireless coverage on these maps do not take into account local topographic features. . . . · The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts makes no guarantee about the suitability of these maps for any purpose by any person whatsoever. I am afraid that government members of Parliament have obviously not read that disclaimer on that website, because they have been using those maps to promote the federal government’s policy on broadband. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It is John Howard’s flat earth policy. Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
That is a very good question, although it is not the one that I had. Mr J.H.D. Day : Before you start the question, look up into the press gallery and you will see the level of interest. Mr E.S. Ripper : That is a measure of the opposition you provide. The SPEAKER : Order! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure the level of interjection from both sides of the house means that nobody wants this question time to continue. We are almost at that stage; any more mass interjections and we will be closing it down. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I point out to the member for Darling Range that the press have been gone since the Leader of the Opposition asked his first question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr F.M. LOGAN : I thank the member for her question, her role as my parliamentary secretary and her commitment and outstanding work with the information and communications technology sector. When the Howard government got its act together and announced its long overdue broadband plan, it must have assumed that Australia was full of lovely large, flat plains. It did not take into account the hills and mountains that affect wireless broadband. It has recently been revealed that the federal government’s $1 billion fixed wireless broadband network coverage will deliver to 50 per cent fewer people than initially claimed. It has done that by ignoring or being ignorant of the fact that wireless broadband has difficulty passing through mountains and hills, although, in fact, that is recognised by Senator Helen Coonan. On her department’s website, the government’s broadband coverage maps have recently added a disclaimer that states - · Depictions of WiMAX and other wireless coverage on these maps do not take into account local topographic features. . . . · The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts makes no guarantee about the suitability of these maps for any purpose by any person whatsoever. I am afraid that government members of Parliament have obviously not read that disclaimer on that website, because they have been using those maps to promote the federal government’s policy on broadband. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It is John Howard’s flat earth policy. Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
Mr J.H.D. Day : Before you start the question, look up into the press gallery and you will see the level of interest. Mr E.S. Ripper : That is a measure of the opposition you provide. The SPEAKER : Order! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure the level of interjection from both sides of the house means that nobody wants this question time to continue. We are almost at that stage; any more mass interjections and we will be closing it down. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I point out to the member for Darling Range that the press have been gone since the Leader of the Opposition asked his first question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr F.M. LOGAN : I thank the member for her question, her role as my parliamentary secretary and her commitment and outstanding work with the information and communications technology sector. When the Howard government got its act together and announced its long overdue broadband plan, it must have assumed that Australia was full of lovely large, flat plains. It did not take into account the hills and mountains that affect wireless broadband. It has recently been revealed that the federal government’s $1 billion fixed wireless broadband network coverage will deliver to 50 per cent fewer people than initially claimed. It has done that by ignoring or being ignorant of the fact that wireless broadband has difficulty passing through mountains and hills, although, in fact, that is recognised by Senator Helen Coonan. On her department’s website, the government’s broadband coverage maps have recently added a disclaimer that states - · Depictions of WiMAX and other wireless coverage on these maps do not take into account local topographic features. . . . · The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts makes no guarantee about the suitability of these maps for any purpose by any person whatsoever. I am afraid that government members of Parliament have obviously not read that disclaimer on that website, because they have been using those maps to promote the federal government’s policy on broadband. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It is John Howard’s flat earth policy. Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
Mr E.S. Ripper : That is a measure of the opposition you provide. The SPEAKER : Order! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure the level of interjection from both sides of the house means that nobody wants this question time to continue. We are almost at that stage; any more mass interjections and we will be closing it down. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I point out to the member for Darling Range that the press have been gone since the Leader of the Opposition asked his first question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr F.M. LOGAN : I thank the member for her question, her role as my parliamentary secretary and her commitment and outstanding work with the information and communications technology sector. When the Howard government got its act together and announced its long overdue broadband plan, it must have assumed that Australia was full of lovely large, flat plains. It did not take into account the hills and mountains that affect wireless broadband. It has recently been revealed that the federal government’s $1 billion fixed wireless broadband network coverage will deliver to 50 per cent fewer people than initially claimed. It has done that by ignoring or being ignorant of the fact that wireless broadband has difficulty passing through mountains and hills, although, in fact, that is recognised by Senator Helen Coonan. On her department’s website, the government’s broadband coverage maps have recently added a disclaimer that states - · Depictions of WiMAX and other wireless coverage on these maps do not take into account local topographic features. . . . · The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts makes no guarantee about the suitability of these maps for any purpose by any person whatsoever. I am afraid that government members of Parliament have obviously not read that disclaimer on that website, because they have been using those maps to promote the federal government’s policy on broadband. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It is John Howard’s flat earth policy. Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
The SPEAKER : Order! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure the level of interjection from both sides of the house means that nobody wants this question time to continue. We are almost at that stage; any more mass interjections and we will be closing it down. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I point out to the member for Darling Range that the press have been gone since the Leader of the Opposition asked his first question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr F.M. LOGAN : I thank the member for her question, her role as my parliamentary secretary and her commitment and outstanding work with the information and communications technology sector. When the Howard government got its act together and announced its long overdue broadband plan, it must have assumed that Australia was full of lovely large, flat plains. It did not take into account the hills and mountains that affect wireless broadband. It has recently been revealed that the federal government’s $1 billion fixed wireless broadband network coverage will deliver to 50 per cent fewer people than initially claimed. It has done that by ignoring or being ignorant of the fact that wireless broadband has difficulty passing through mountains and hills, although, in fact, that is recognised by Senator Helen Coonan. On her department’s website, the government’s broadband coverage maps have recently added a disclaimer that states - · Depictions of WiMAX and other wireless coverage on these maps do not take into account local topographic features. . . . · The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts makes no guarantee about the suitability of these maps for any purpose by any person whatsoever. I am afraid that government members of Parliament have obviously not read that disclaimer on that website, because they have been using those maps to promote the federal government’s policy on broadband. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It is John Howard’s flat earth policy. Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure the level of interjection from both sides of the house means that nobody wants this question time to continue. We are almost at that stage; any more mass interjections and we will be closing it down. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I point out to the member for Darling Range that the press have been gone since the Leader of the Opposition asked his first question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr F.M. LOGAN : I thank the member for her question, her role as my parliamentary secretary and her commitment and outstanding work with the information and communications technology sector. When the Howard government got its act together and announced its long overdue broadband plan, it must have assumed that Australia was full of lovely large, flat plains. It did not take into account the hills and mountains that affect wireless broadband. It has recently been revealed that the federal government’s $1 billion fixed wireless broadband network coverage will deliver to 50 per cent fewer people than initially claimed. It has done that by ignoring or being ignorant of the fact that wireless broadband has difficulty passing through mountains and hills, although, in fact, that is recognised by Senator Helen Coonan. On her department’s website, the government’s broadband coverage maps have recently added a disclaimer that states - · Depictions of WiMAX and other wireless coverage on these maps do not take into account local topographic features. . . . · The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts makes no guarantee about the suitability of these maps for any purpose by any person whatsoever. I am afraid that government members of Parliament have obviously not read that disclaimer on that website, because they have been using those maps to promote the federal government’s policy on broadband. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It is John Howard’s flat earth policy. Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure the level of interjection from both sides of the house means that nobody wants this question time to continue. We are almost at that stage; any more mass interjections and we will be closing it down. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I point out to the member for Darling Range that the press have been gone since the Leader of the Opposition asked his first question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr F.M. LOGAN : I thank the member for her question, her role as my parliamentary secretary and her commitment and outstanding work with the information and communications technology sector. When the Howard government got its act together and announced its long overdue broadband plan, it must have assumed that Australia was full of lovely large, flat plains. It did not take into account the hills and mountains that affect wireless broadband. It has recently been revealed that the federal government’s $1 billion fixed wireless broadband network coverage will deliver to 50 per cent fewer people than initially claimed. It has done that by ignoring or being ignorant of the fact that wireless broadband has difficulty passing through mountains and hills, although, in fact, that is recognised by Senator Helen Coonan. On her department’s website, the government’s broadband coverage maps have recently added a disclaimer that states - · Depictions of WiMAX and other wireless coverage on these maps do not take into account local topographic features. . . . · The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts makes no guarantee about the suitability of these maps for any purpose by any person whatsoever. I am afraid that government members of Parliament have obviously not read that disclaimer on that website, because they have been using those maps to promote the federal government’s policy on broadband. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It is John Howard’s flat earth policy. Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : I point out to the member for Darling Range that the press have been gone since the Leader of the Opposition asked his first question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr F.M. LOGAN : I thank the member for her question, her role as my parliamentary secretary and her commitment and outstanding work with the information and communications technology sector. When the Howard government got its act together and announced its long overdue broadband plan, it must have assumed that Australia was full of lovely large, flat plains. It did not take into account the hills and mountains that affect wireless broadband. It has recently been revealed that the federal government’s $1 billion fixed wireless broadband network coverage will deliver to 50 per cent fewer people than initially claimed. It has done that by ignoring or being ignorant of the fact that wireless broadband has difficulty passing through mountains and hills, although, in fact, that is recognised by Senator Helen Coonan. On her department’s website, the government’s broadband coverage maps have recently added a disclaimer that states - · Depictions of WiMAX and other wireless coverage on these maps do not take into account local topographic features. . . . · The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts makes no guarantee about the suitability of these maps for any purpose by any person whatsoever. I am afraid that government members of Parliament have obviously not read that disclaimer on that website, because they have been using those maps to promote the federal government’s policy on broadband. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It is John Howard’s flat earth policy. Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr F.M. LOGAN : I thank the member for her question, her role as my parliamentary secretary and her commitment and outstanding work with the information and communications technology sector. When the Howard government got its act together and announced its long overdue broadband plan, it must have assumed that Australia was full of lovely large, flat plains. It did not take into account the hills and mountains that affect wireless broadband. It has recently been revealed that the federal government’s $1 billion fixed wireless broadband network coverage will deliver to 50 per cent fewer people than initially claimed. It has done that by ignoring or being ignorant of the fact that wireless broadband has difficulty passing through mountains and hills, although, in fact, that is recognised by Senator Helen Coonan. On her department’s website, the government’s broadband coverage maps have recently added a disclaimer that states - · Depictions of WiMAX and other wireless coverage on these maps do not take into account local topographic features. . . . · The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts makes no guarantee about the suitability of these maps for any purpose by any person whatsoever. I am afraid that government members of Parliament have obviously not read that disclaimer on that website, because they have been using those maps to promote the federal government’s policy on broadband. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It is John Howard’s flat earth policy. Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
The SPEAKER : Order! Mr F.M. LOGAN : I thank the member for her question, her role as my parliamentary secretary and her commitment and outstanding work with the information and communications technology sector. When the Howard government got its act together and announced its long overdue broadband plan, it must have assumed that Australia was full of lovely large, flat plains. It did not take into account the hills and mountains that affect wireless broadband. It has recently been revealed that the federal government’s $1 billion fixed wireless broadband network coverage will deliver to 50 per cent fewer people than initially claimed. It has done that by ignoring or being ignorant of the fact that wireless broadband has difficulty passing through mountains and hills, although, in fact, that is recognised by Senator Helen Coonan. On her department’s website, the government’s broadband coverage maps have recently added a disclaimer that states - · Depictions of WiMAX and other wireless coverage on these maps do not take into account local topographic features. . . . · The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts makes no guarantee about the suitability of these maps for any purpose by any person whatsoever. I am afraid that government members of Parliament have obviously not read that disclaimer on that website, because they have been using those maps to promote the federal government’s policy on broadband. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It is John Howard’s flat earth policy. Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : I thank the member for her question, her role as my parliamentary secretary and her commitment and outstanding work with the information and communications technology sector. When the Howard government got its act together and announced its long overdue broadband plan, it must have assumed that Australia was full of lovely large, flat plains. It did not take into account the hills and mountains that affect wireless broadband. It has recently been revealed that the federal government’s $1 billion fixed wireless broadband network coverage will deliver to 50 per cent fewer people than initially claimed. It has done that by ignoring or being ignorant of the fact that wireless broadband has difficulty passing through mountains and hills, although, in fact, that is recognised by Senator Helen Coonan. On her department’s website, the government’s broadband coverage maps have recently added a disclaimer that states - · Depictions of WiMAX and other wireless coverage on these maps do not take into account local topographic features. . . . · The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts makes no guarantee about the suitability of these maps for any purpose by any person whatsoever. I am afraid that government members of Parliament have obviously not read that disclaimer on that website, because they have been using those maps to promote the federal government’s policy on broadband. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It is John Howard’s flat earth policy. Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
· The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts makes no guarantee about the suitability of these maps for any purpose by any person whatsoever.
Mrs M.H. Roberts : It is John Howard’s flat earth policy. Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
Mr F.M. LOGAN replied: That is a very good question, although it is not the one that I had. Mr J.H.D. Day : Before you start the question, look up into the press gallery and you will see the level of interest. Mr E.S. Ripper : That is a measure of the opposition you provide. The SPEAKER : Order! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure the level of interjection from both sides of the house means that nobody wants this question time to continue. We are almost at that stage; any more mass interjections and we will be closing it down. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I point out to the member for Darling Range that the press have been gone since the Leader of the Opposition asked his first question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr F.M. LOGAN : I thank the member for her question, her role as my parliamentary secretary and her commitment and outstanding work with the information and communications technology sector. When the Howard government got its act together and announced its long overdue broadband plan, it must have assumed that Australia was full of lovely large, flat plains. It did not take into account the hills and mountains that affect wireless broadband. It has recently been revealed that the federal government’s $1 billion fixed wireless broadband network coverage will deliver to 50 per cent fewer people than initially claimed. It has done that by ignoring or being ignorant of the fact that wireless broadband has difficulty passing through mountains and hills, although, in fact, that is recognised by Senator Helen Coonan. On her department’s website, the government’s broadband coverage maps have recently added a disclaimer that states - · Depictions of WiMAX and other wireless coverage on these maps do not take into account local topographic features. . . . · The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts makes no guarantee about the suitability of these maps for any purpose by any person whatsoever. I am afraid that government members of Parliament have obviously not read that disclaimer on that website, because they have been using those maps to promote the federal government’s policy on broadband. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It is John Howard’s flat earth policy. Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
That is a very good question, although it is not the one that I had. Mr J.H.D. Day : Before you start the question, look up into the press gallery and you will see the level of interest. Mr E.S. Ripper : That is a measure of the opposition you provide. The SPEAKER : Order! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure the level of interjection from both sides of the house means that nobody wants this question time to continue. We are almost at that stage; any more mass interjections and we will be closing it down. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I point out to the member for Darling Range that the press have been gone since the Leader of the Opposition asked his first question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr F.M. LOGAN : I thank the member for her question, her role as my parliamentary secretary and her commitment and outstanding work with the information and communications technology sector. When the Howard government got its act together and announced its long overdue broadband plan, it must have assumed that Australia was full of lovely large, flat plains. It did not take into account the hills and mountains that affect wireless broadband. It has recently been revealed that the federal government’s $1 billion fixed wireless broadband network coverage will deliver to 50 per cent fewer people than initially claimed. It has done that by ignoring or being ignorant of the fact that wireless broadband has difficulty passing through mountains and hills, although, in fact, that is recognised by Senator Helen Coonan. On her department’s website, the government’s broadband coverage maps have recently added a disclaimer that states - · Depictions of WiMAX and other wireless coverage on these maps do not take into account local topographic features. . . . · The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts makes no guarantee about the suitability of these maps for any purpose by any person whatsoever. I am afraid that government members of Parliament have obviously not read that disclaimer on that website, because they have been using those maps to promote the federal government’s policy on broadband. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It is John Howard’s flat earth policy. Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
Mr J.H.D. Day : Before you start the question, look up into the press gallery and you will see the level of interest. Mr E.S. Ripper : That is a measure of the opposition you provide. The SPEAKER : Order! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure the level of interjection from both sides of the house means that nobody wants this question time to continue. We are almost at that stage; any more mass interjections and we will be closing it down. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I point out to the member for Darling Range that the press have been gone since the Leader of the Opposition asked his first question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr F.M. LOGAN : I thank the member for her question, her role as my parliamentary secretary and her commitment and outstanding work with the information and communications technology sector. When the Howard government got its act together and announced its long overdue broadband plan, it must have assumed that Australia was full of lovely large, flat plains. It did not take into account the hills and mountains that affect wireless broadband. It has recently been revealed that the federal government’s $1 billion fixed wireless broadband network coverage will deliver to 50 per cent fewer people than initially claimed. It has done that by ignoring or being ignorant of the fact that wireless broadband has difficulty passing through mountains and hills, although, in fact, that is recognised by Senator Helen Coonan. On her department’s website, the government’s broadband coverage maps have recently added a disclaimer that states - · Depictions of WiMAX and other wireless coverage on these maps do not take into account local topographic features. . . . · The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts makes no guarantee about the suitability of these maps for any purpose by any person whatsoever. I am afraid that government members of Parliament have obviously not read that disclaimer on that website, because they have been using those maps to promote the federal government’s policy on broadband. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It is John Howard’s flat earth policy. Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
Mr E.S. Ripper : That is a measure of the opposition you provide. The SPEAKER : Order! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure the level of interjection from both sides of the house means that nobody wants this question time to continue. We are almost at that stage; any more mass interjections and we will be closing it down. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I point out to the member for Darling Range that the press have been gone since the Leader of the Opposition asked his first question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr F.M. LOGAN : I thank the member for her question, her role as my parliamentary secretary and her commitment and outstanding work with the information and communications technology sector. When the Howard government got its act together and announced its long overdue broadband plan, it must have assumed that Australia was full of lovely large, flat plains. It did not take into account the hills and mountains that affect wireless broadband. It has recently been revealed that the federal government’s $1 billion fixed wireless broadband network coverage will deliver to 50 per cent fewer people than initially claimed. It has done that by ignoring or being ignorant of the fact that wireless broadband has difficulty passing through mountains and hills, although, in fact, that is recognised by Senator Helen Coonan. On her department’s website, the government’s broadband coverage maps have recently added a disclaimer that states - · Depictions of WiMAX and other wireless coverage on these maps do not take into account local topographic features. . . . · The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts makes no guarantee about the suitability of these maps for any purpose by any person whatsoever. I am afraid that government members of Parliament have obviously not read that disclaimer on that website, because they have been using those maps to promote the federal government’s policy on broadband. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It is John Howard’s flat earth policy. Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
The SPEAKER : Order! Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure the level of interjection from both sides of the house means that nobody wants this question time to continue. We are almost at that stage; any more mass interjections and we will be closing it down. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I point out to the member for Darling Range that the press have been gone since the Leader of the Opposition asked his first question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr F.M. LOGAN : I thank the member for her question, her role as my parliamentary secretary and her commitment and outstanding work with the information and communications technology sector. When the Howard government got its act together and announced its long overdue broadband plan, it must have assumed that Australia was full of lovely large, flat plains. It did not take into account the hills and mountains that affect wireless broadband. It has recently been revealed that the federal government’s $1 billion fixed wireless broadband network coverage will deliver to 50 per cent fewer people than initially claimed. It has done that by ignoring or being ignorant of the fact that wireless broadband has difficulty passing through mountains and hills, although, in fact, that is recognised by Senator Helen Coonan. On her department’s website, the government’s broadband coverage maps have recently added a disclaimer that states - · Depictions of WiMAX and other wireless coverage on these maps do not take into account local topographic features. . . . · The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts makes no guarantee about the suitability of these maps for any purpose by any person whatsoever. I am afraid that government members of Parliament have obviously not read that disclaimer on that website, because they have been using those maps to promote the federal government’s policy on broadband. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It is John Howard’s flat earth policy. Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure the level of interjection from both sides of the house means that nobody wants this question time to continue. We are almost at that stage; any more mass interjections and we will be closing it down. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I point out to the member for Darling Range that the press have been gone since the Leader of the Opposition asked his first question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr F.M. LOGAN : I thank the member for her question, her role as my parliamentary secretary and her commitment and outstanding work with the information and communications technology sector. When the Howard government got its act together and announced its long overdue broadband plan, it must have assumed that Australia was full of lovely large, flat plains. It did not take into account the hills and mountains that affect wireless broadband. It has recently been revealed that the federal government’s $1 billion fixed wireless broadband network coverage will deliver to 50 per cent fewer people than initially claimed. It has done that by ignoring or being ignorant of the fact that wireless broadband has difficulty passing through mountains and hills, although, in fact, that is recognised by Senator Helen Coonan. On her department’s website, the government’s broadband coverage maps have recently added a disclaimer that states - · Depictions of WiMAX and other wireless coverage on these maps do not take into account local topographic features. . . . · The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts makes no guarantee about the suitability of these maps for any purpose by any person whatsoever. I am afraid that government members of Parliament have obviously not read that disclaimer on that website, because they have been using those maps to promote the federal government’s policy on broadband. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It is John Howard’s flat earth policy. Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
The SPEAKER : Order! I am sure the level of interjection from both sides of the house means that nobody wants this question time to continue. We are almost at that stage; any more mass interjections and we will be closing it down. Mr F.M. LOGAN : I point out to the member for Darling Range that the press have been gone since the Leader of the Opposition asked his first question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr F.M. LOGAN : I thank the member for her question, her role as my parliamentary secretary and her commitment and outstanding work with the information and communications technology sector. When the Howard government got its act together and announced its long overdue broadband plan, it must have assumed that Australia was full of lovely large, flat plains. It did not take into account the hills and mountains that affect wireless broadband. It has recently been revealed that the federal government’s $1 billion fixed wireless broadband network coverage will deliver to 50 per cent fewer people than initially claimed. It has done that by ignoring or being ignorant of the fact that wireless broadband has difficulty passing through mountains and hills, although, in fact, that is recognised by Senator Helen Coonan. On her department’s website, the government’s broadband coverage maps have recently added a disclaimer that states - · Depictions of WiMAX and other wireless coverage on these maps do not take into account local topographic features. . . . · The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts makes no guarantee about the suitability of these maps for any purpose by any person whatsoever. I am afraid that government members of Parliament have obviously not read that disclaimer on that website, because they have been using those maps to promote the federal government’s policy on broadband. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It is John Howard’s flat earth policy. Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : I point out to the member for Darling Range that the press have been gone since the Leader of the Opposition asked his first question. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr F.M. LOGAN : I thank the member for her question, her role as my parliamentary secretary and her commitment and outstanding work with the information and communications technology sector. When the Howard government got its act together and announced its long overdue broadband plan, it must have assumed that Australia was full of lovely large, flat plains. It did not take into account the hills and mountains that affect wireless broadband. It has recently been revealed that the federal government’s $1 billion fixed wireless broadband network coverage will deliver to 50 per cent fewer people than initially claimed. It has done that by ignoring or being ignorant of the fact that wireless broadband has difficulty passing through mountains and hills, although, in fact, that is recognised by Senator Helen Coonan. On her department’s website, the government’s broadband coverage maps have recently added a disclaimer that states - · Depictions of WiMAX and other wireless coverage on these maps do not take into account local topographic features. . . . · The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts makes no guarantee about the suitability of these maps for any purpose by any person whatsoever. I am afraid that government members of Parliament have obviously not read that disclaimer on that website, because they have been using those maps to promote the federal government’s policy on broadband. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It is John Howard’s flat earth policy. Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! Mr F.M. LOGAN : I thank the member for her question, her role as my parliamentary secretary and her commitment and outstanding work with the information and communications technology sector. When the Howard government got its act together and announced its long overdue broadband plan, it must have assumed that Australia was full of lovely large, flat plains. It did not take into account the hills and mountains that affect wireless broadband. It has recently been revealed that the federal government’s $1 billion fixed wireless broadband network coverage will deliver to 50 per cent fewer people than initially claimed. It has done that by ignoring or being ignorant of the fact that wireless broadband has difficulty passing through mountains and hills, although, in fact, that is recognised by Senator Helen Coonan. On her department’s website, the government’s broadband coverage maps have recently added a disclaimer that states - · Depictions of WiMAX and other wireless coverage on these maps do not take into account local topographic features. . . . · The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts makes no guarantee about the suitability of these maps for any purpose by any person whatsoever. I am afraid that government members of Parliament have obviously not read that disclaimer on that website, because they have been using those maps to promote the federal government’s policy on broadband. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It is John Howard’s flat earth policy. Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
The SPEAKER : Order! Mr F.M. LOGAN : I thank the member for her question, her role as my parliamentary secretary and her commitment and outstanding work with the information and communications technology sector. When the Howard government got its act together and announced its long overdue broadband plan, it must have assumed that Australia was full of lovely large, flat plains. It did not take into account the hills and mountains that affect wireless broadband. It has recently been revealed that the federal government’s $1 billion fixed wireless broadband network coverage will deliver to 50 per cent fewer people than initially claimed. It has done that by ignoring or being ignorant of the fact that wireless broadband has difficulty passing through mountains and hills, although, in fact, that is recognised by Senator Helen Coonan. On her department’s website, the government’s broadband coverage maps have recently added a disclaimer that states - · Depictions of WiMAX and other wireless coverage on these maps do not take into account local topographic features. . . . · The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts makes no guarantee about the suitability of these maps for any purpose by any person whatsoever. I am afraid that government members of Parliament have obviously not read that disclaimer on that website, because they have been using those maps to promote the federal government’s policy on broadband. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It is John Howard’s flat earth policy. Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : I thank the member for her question, her role as my parliamentary secretary and her commitment and outstanding work with the information and communications technology sector. When the Howard government got its act together and announced its long overdue broadband plan, it must have assumed that Australia was full of lovely large, flat plains. It did not take into account the hills and mountains that affect wireless broadband. It has recently been revealed that the federal government’s $1 billion fixed wireless broadband network coverage will deliver to 50 per cent fewer people than initially claimed. It has done that by ignoring or being ignorant of the fact that wireless broadband has difficulty passing through mountains and hills, although, in fact, that is recognised by Senator Helen Coonan. On her department’s website, the government’s broadband coverage maps have recently added a disclaimer that states - · Depictions of WiMAX and other wireless coverage on these maps do not take into account local topographic features. . . . · The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts makes no guarantee about the suitability of these maps for any purpose by any person whatsoever. I am afraid that government members of Parliament have obviously not read that disclaimer on that website, because they have been using those maps to promote the federal government’s policy on broadband. Mrs M.H. Roberts : It is John Howard’s flat earth policy. Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
· The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts makes no guarantee about the suitability of these maps for any purpose by any person whatsoever.
Mrs M.H. Roberts : It is John Howard’s flat earth policy. Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
Mr F.M. LOGAN : It may well be. It certainly does not take into account wireless broadband. I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the action of federal government members of Parliament in using those maps to promote their government’s policies in this election campaign, without adding a disclaimer, is misleading or, at worst, fraudulent. Only Labor has a plan for delivering broadband to 100 per cent of Australians by committing $4.7 billion to build a national broadband network delivering a minimum of 12 megabytes per second to 98 per cent of all Australians, with only two per cent of the rest of Australia being served by either satellite or wireless broadband. Only the Australian Labor Party has a plan to deliver a fast broadband network to the whole of Australia, and only it will deliver broadband to regional Western Australia, unlike the federal government.
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