Paul Fletcher (Bradfield, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

asked the Minister representing the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, in writing, on 21 March 2011:

In respect of the decision made by the Government, announced on 7 April 2009, to replace its fibre to the node policy with a fibre to the home policy, when it was claimed that the Government 'acted on the advice of an expert panel, containing within it the Secretary of the Treasury, expert advice also from the ACCC about this thing being the right way to go', is it a fact that on 18 May 2009 a member of the expert panel, Prof Rod Tucker, said 'I just want to make one thing clear: the panel of experts was never asked to and didn't make any judgement call on the issue of investment for a fibre to the home network.'; if so, is Prof Tucker's statement accurate; if so what advice did the Government base its decision upon.

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