Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the diplomatic Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Conroy! Was the decision to embark on a $43 billion fibre-to-the-home national broadband network an example of the 'contempt for the cabinet process' the minister recently said was endemic in the Rudd Labor government and the 'dysfunctional decision-making' that the Treasurer recently said marked the Rudd era?