Senate debates

Tuesday, 23 November 2010

Questions without Notice

Broadband

2:42 pm

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

I thank Senator Joyce for his ongoing interest in this issue, particularly the Page Foundation where he endorsed and supported a fibre-to-the-home network, and I look forward to his many more questions. The NBN Co. has finalised, as I have already said, its three-year corporate plan and a 30-year business plan. The company did submit, as I have said, the plan to government on 8 November. The government is committed to releasing as much information as possible from the business plan. The business plan contains material, as Mr Quigley has advised, which is highly sensitive and commercial-in-confidence. Certain information may be of a commercial significance in a number of competitive procurement processes which NBN Co. currently has underway and those which may be conducted during the life of the project. This includes the commercial—

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