Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Water Resources and Conservation) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I ask the minister: wasn’t respected telecommunications analyst Paul Budde right in his evidence to the Senate select committee that fibre to the node beyond 91 per cent was ‘silly’ and ‘not necessary’ and that you could spend all your $4 billion on the last two to four per cent of the 98 per cent, which would make no sense?