Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for COAG) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Can the minister please advise the chamber when the cost will be known? What assurance can the government offer the Australian public that the installation of the NBN in housing estates will not result in a cost blow-out in what is already a massive government spend—or is this another one of the doubtful assumptions called into question by Senator Wong’s department?