Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Is John Martin, the infrastructure specialist with RBS Australia, correct when he said, in reference to the minister’s proposed NBN, ‘What we need is a thorough business case that then gets put through Infrastructure Australia, a cost-benefit analysis’? Given that there could be over $20 billion of taxpayer’s money at risk, why won’t the government commit to a full cost-benefit analysis?