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

When it comes to the Caliburn report, again, this is a report that in fact has been commissioned to examine the business case robustly, as it correctly states in the contract. That is entirely what an appropriately sensible government should do. In fact, that is what those opposite did in many cases. The government has commissioned a number of organisations to look at a number of aspects of the NBN and its operations through a range of different activities. Those opposite suddenly want to say that, on the one hand, there is no scrutiny going on and then, when they suddenly read the front page of the paper having done no work themselves—they never bother to actually ask a question themselves—they go, ‘Oh, my goodness!’