Parliamentary Committees

Economic and Finance Committee: National Broadband Network

Debate resumed.

Mr SPEIRS (Bright) (11:58): I would also like to add my contribution to the Economic and Finance Committee's report into the National Broadband Network. This was the first inquiry that I was part of following my placement on the Economic and Finance Committee in October 2014. The inquiry had just gotten underway at that point, and it ran throughout 2015 alongside some other inquiries that the committee was undertaking.

For me personally it is an area of interest, because my own electorate has a significant problem with internet access, particularly in the south of my electorate around Hallett Cove, which is a well known and long-term internet blackspot. The need for the NBN to be rolled out into my electorate, but particularly in the Hallett Cove area, is something that is raised with me on a regular basis. In fact, on Friday afternoon I was out doorknocking a street in the north of Hallett Cove and it was raised by three different households, which I think is fairly significant given the number of people I spoke to on Friday afternoon. For three households to raise internet access as an issue clearly means it is something that should be attended to. I seek leave to continue my remarks at a later point.

Leave granted; debate adjourned.