Senator FIFIELD (Victoria—Manager of Government Business in the Senate, Minister for Communications and Minister for the Arts) (14:12): I thank Senator McLucas for her question. I think colleagues would be aware that perhaps Senator Conroy and Mr Clare in the other place have been getting around the place from time to time, opening up their trench coats, saying to walking journalists going past them, 'Psst, psst, I've got something here.' Opposition senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: On my left! Order! Opposition senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: On my left! Minister, you have the call. Senator FIFIELD: This may come as a surprise to some people, but you cannot necessarily take the construction that The Sydney Morning Herald or The Age puts on something as necessarily accurate. But the good news is that the NBN rollout is going well. 1.8 million households have the opportunity to connect to the NBN. There are currently about 820,000 premises that have elected to do so. I can share with you that under the previous government only 51,000 premises activations had occurred. Fifty-one thousand under Labor and 820,000 under the coalition— The PRESIDENT: Pause the clock. Senator McLucas: Mr President, I raise a point of order on relevance. I asked the simple question: was the minister informed that the NBN rollout was behind schedule before or after he made his statement? Can I you ask you to bring him back to the question. The PRESIDENT: I will remind the minister of the question. Minister, you have 24 seconds in which to respond. Senator FIFIELD: The point that I am making, which may have alluded Senator McLucas, is that I do not accept the premise of her question that the NBN is behind schedule. The NBN is on track to have 2.6 million premises available this financial year to connect to the NBN. (Time expired)