Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern and Remote Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. The minister’s incompetence is clear for all to see, but I ask him now: why is it that Australia’s fastest growing broadband provider said recently, as TPG Telecom’s executive chairman did, that he is not convinced that demand for NBN services has matured and that deeper analysis is required before taxpayers’ dollars are thrown into it? Does this prove that Mr Rudd—