Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Communications and Broadband) Share this | Hansard source

The opposition supports the establishment of this Joint Committee on the National Broadband Network. This is certainly a second-best option to the joint committee that we proposed and it does not have the same clear focus on the cost-effectiveness of the proposal that the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works had, but it is certainly better than nothing. One question that the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport has not outlined—and if the minister could pay attention to what I am saying here—

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