Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Minister, are you denying that Mr Broad, the CEO of Australia’s third-largest telco, has said, and I quote again, ‘The NBN is absolute rubbish’ and ‘a complete waste of money’? Further, in light of comments by both Mr Murdoch and Mr Broad, does the minister accept that if the NBN project was subjected to a thorough cost-benefit analysis it would in all likelihood dismally fail the test?