Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Just to help Senator Conroy with the question, it was a quote from him in question time two days ago. So whether or not he agrees with it I would be very interested to know, and perhaps he could deal with that during the supplementary. Given the government requires farmers to obtain a robust business case in the development of irrigation-efficiency projects in the Murray-Darling Basin, can the minister explain why the government refuses to subject its own $43 billion National Broadband Network to a robust—(Time expired)