Paul Neville (Hinkler, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Why wouldn’t they welcome it? Why wouldn’t they be on that committee making sure that it justified what they had done—that it was bringing home the bacon, so to speak? But no. It was also interesting to hear the member for Blair saying what a marvellous thing the McKinsey report was. It cost $25 million—$46,000 a page, I think the member for Wentworth estimated. This little quote sums it all up:

The purpose of the Implementation Study is to advise Government on how best to implement its stated policy objectives—

and note this—

not to evaluate those objectives, given that the policies have already been agreed to by Government.

In other words, ‘Let’s go round and chase our tail because we did not get any clear direction from the government.’ The member for Wentworth has come up with a very good plan that adds a level of probity that has been missing in all these government programs, particularly in telecommunications. I commend his motion to this House.

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