Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

As I was saying, Senator Barnett came and asked this very question at estimates. If he had bothered to read the Hansard from the previous estimates he would have found the entire contractual price: $37 million. As Mr Quigley has repeatedly said, for stage 1 at $137 million we came in under budget and on time. The reason I cannot answer that specifically is that there is a range of contracts that are currently about to be finalised. So when you say ‘to date’ do you mean at five o’clock today? I am not sure if it was signed yesterday. It may have actually been signed yesterday, Senator Brandis, but I am not managing it on a day-to-day basis. It is actually run by NBN Co. So, if you want to know what stage 1 costs, it has already been put on the public record, and despite Senator Barnett not wanting to bother reading Hansard