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

My question is to the Prime Minister. When it was revealed during the election campaign that she had strongly opposed pension increases in cabinet, the Prime Minister stated: ‘I am the person who will say, “Let’s look at it. Let’s cost it. Let’s think about it. Let’s question it. Let’s turn it upside down. Let’s hold it up to the light. Let’s ask a million questions. Does it add up? Is it affordable?” ‘ Prime Minister, if such scrutiny was good enough for pension increases, why is it not good enough for the $43 billion NBN? Isn’t the Prime Minister’s double standard proof again that the government has lost its way?

Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Wentworth for his question. It is good enough for the NBN and it is happening.