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

Unfortunately that question is based on a string of false premises, false assertions and some allegations tossed in just to round it out. The NBN Co. has finalised its three-year corporate plan and its 30-year business plan. The company submitted the plan to the government, as I said yesterday, on 8 November 2010. The government has announced that it will be releasing as much information as possible from the business plan. The government is currently considering the business plan, and it is reviewing it to remove commercial-in-confidence material prior to its release. The government has also commissioned Greenhill Caliburn to undertake an external review of the NBN business plan, and it is common practice for government to seek external expert advice relating to complex policy transactions.