Cory Bernardi (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. I refer the minister to yesterday’s release of the OECD economic survey, which highlights the limits on local access competition under the NBN, saying it will ‘eliminate competition’, represents ‘a de facto restoration of a public monopoly’ and ‘could forestall the development of superior technological alternatives’. Isn’t it true that consumers are going to end up paying for Labor’s NBN through higher prices, lost competition or both?