Indeed, he laid out his handiwork in broad brushes his press conference in Tasmania this morning: "We have turned around the NBN by putting in new management, new board, a new approach." To recap, this was Mr Turnbull's original claim: That he would cut the costs of a future-proofed NBN 95 per cent fibre to the premises (with satellite and wireless technologies covering remote areas). The company would switch to the Multi-Technology Mix of FttP, fibre-to-the-node running into Telstra ageing copper network, and the ageing Optus and Telstra hybrid fibre coaxial cable (HFC) networks that had been built for pay TV. Mr Turnbull also promised this would speed up deployment. The first leak was a Fairfax Media story about the dilapidated state of the Optus HFC network, headlined Leaked NBN budget blowout documents threaten to embarrass Malcolm Turnbull.