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

There is a range of information that can be derived from the raw numbers. But, as Mr Quigley also made clear, there are ongoing contracts being negotiated by NBN Co. such that, if numbers were made public, companies could increase their prices and make higher bids against the NBN. If we complied with the idiocy of those opposite, taxpayers would pay more for the rollout of the NBN. Just a blanket, ‘Release it!’, but—