Brett Mason (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Education) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Given that the computers in schools program was a major election commitment, why did it take the government until 3 September this year to formulate its own estimates of costs and until 4.55 pm last Thursday before those estimates were finally made public? Secondly, given that the government received friendly advice in the February Senate estimates that the program’s true cost was over $2 billion, will the government save time in the future by simply going to the opposition for the costing of its policies?