Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Can the minister confirm that it was little more than blind ideological prejudice on the part of the Labor government and NBN senior management that precluded a greater utilisation of existing construction expertise in the rollout, such as that suggested by your own Mr Husic and, of course, utilising skills of companies like Telstra?