Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. The minister yesterday publicly confirmed that approximately 40 per cent of NBN Co’s employees were hired without interview and without the jobs being publicly advertised and were employed solely on word of mouth. Minister, how can such exorbitant salaries as $450,000 for Labor associate Mike Kaiser be justified when so many positions are not advertised and so many employees do not even have an interview before appointment?