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

As the good senator can see, I do remember that speech. We went through a tender process for the-fibre-to-the-node proposal. We went through that and we found, on recommendation from the expert panel that was looking at the fibre-to-the-node proposal, that none of the tenders were value for money for taxpayers. That is what they said. So we took their advice. And then we took their further advice when they said to us, ‘Look, if you want to proceed with the National Broadband Network proposal, our recommendation to you is not that you build a fibre-to-the-node proposal but that you go for the fibre-to-the-home proposal.’ And now that we have been through all of the costings, the McKinsey report, the business plan— (Time expired)