Luke Hartsuyker (Cowper, National Party, Deputy Manager of Opposition Business in the House) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the claim by the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy on ABC radio this morning that the government’s telecommunications bill has nothing to do with the NBN and that the bill does not even mention the phrase ‘National Broadband Network’. Given that the telecommunications bill mentions the phrase ‘NBN’ 62 times, the explanatory memorandum mentions NBN 136 times and the second reading speech mentions NBN seven times, how can the Australian people have any faith in the government’s arguments in support of the NBN when its own minister does not even know what is in his own legislation?

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