Jane Prentice (Ryan, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I remind the Prime Minister of evidence given in Senate estimates by the chief executive officer of Comcare that more than half of all asbestos cases since 1996 involving telecommunication pits have occurred in the past six weeks and his concession that 'At a general level, yes, the Commonwealth will be liable'. Why is the Prime Minister insisting that the risk of asbestos contamination occurring as a result of the National Broadband Network is not the government's responsibility when her own head of Comcare has confirmed the opposite is true?

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