Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. I refer to the tender process for the $233 million 10-year Australia Network contract for Australia's free-to-air international tele­vision network. Is it a fact that the recommendation on the successful tenderer was originally to be made by an independent panel of public servants and that this panel favoured the proposal from Sky News over the ABC?