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

I commiserate with Senator Birmingham for not receiving an invitation or being offered an opportunity to sign the confidentiality agreement. The question is like the chicken and the egg. If you tell me what is not in it, I might be able to tell you what is in it—by process of elimination. You are now asking me to identify by omission what could or could not have been there. It was a confidential briefing and, in the same way that those who signed the agreement are keeping the confidences, I intend to keep the confidences. The letter that Mr Quigley sent, which was publicly released last week, made it quite clear that there is a variety of information, both directly and that can be unpacked from the numbers within the NBN business case, and therefore—