George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Communications, Broadband and the Digital Economy, Senator Conroy. I refer to the services contract with Greenhill Caliburn to advise on the ‘robustness of the key assumptions’—a euphemism if ever there was one—underlying the suppressed NBN business case and the 2010-11 corporate plan. I refer also to the answers given by Senator Wong to Senator Cormann. If the government has so little confidence in its own business case that it has now called into question the very assumptions on which it is based, and if the Minister for Finance and Deregulation has so little confidence in the minister for broadband that she has now decided to second-guess his judgement, how can the public and the markets have any confidence in the minister?