Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I am not sure what figures those calculations are based on at all. I have not heard them before and they certainly have not been touted around publicly. So I would have to say to you that the pricing of the national broadband network is a critical part of the negotiations going on in the request for proposals at the moment. I am sure that every member opposite would understand that I have no intention of speculating on what the pricing should be. But if you, in your supplementary question, would like to explain the basis of those calculations, I am sure the chamber would be enlightened.