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

Go and explain that to the people in Gungahlin, Senator Humphries—the people in Gungahlin who you are denying broadband to. They have been crying out for it, as you well know. And now we are here today being asked: ‘Show us the business case. What have you got to hide?’

Let us be clear: you ran all of these lines about McKinsey. You said to me, ‘What have you got to hide about McKinsey?’ Then there were stories about, ‘Oh, he sent it back. He’s told them to rewrite it. He spent an extra $2 million to get them to write the report that he wants’—all of it completely false, just like—