Mary Fisher (SA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Madam Acting Deputy President, I stand appropriately corrected.

The minister told us at Senate estimates on 25 May:

The NBN Co. is currently being built around Australia as we speak.

He went on to say:

The National Broadband Network is commencing and being deployed irrespective of whether or not legislation is passed or not passed by parliament. It does not require parliament to pass it.

Minister Conroy said that in May. Then when I asked:

Is the legislation irrelevant to the building of the NBN?

He said:

Yes, completely.

So why the hurry? Why the hurry from this minister? Why the hurry for this legislation from this government, when this minister says that this legislation—