Fifield, Sen Mitch

Senator FIFIELD (Victoria—Manager of Government Business in the Senate, Minister for Communications and Minister for the Arts) (14:47): I do not have total knowledge of each premises in Australia, obviously, or of the tens of thousands of individual nodes nationwide, so I cannot speak to the specific circumstance of the particular institution to which Senator Urquhart has alluded. This is one of the most significant infrastructure projects that has ever been undertaken in Australia. Effectively, NBN is seeking to do, over the course of six or so years, that which took the PMG and Telecom the best part of 80 or 90 years. This is a mammoth venture: it is on track and it is on budget. The PRESIDENT: Senator Urquhart, a final supplementary question.