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

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Will the minister tell the Senate on which instance he is telling the truth. Is he telling the truth that cabinet decision making was dysfunctional and contemptuous under the Rudd government and that the NBN was dreamt up on the back of, or on both sides of, an envelope on a VIP plane? Or is he now telling us the truth—that he lost count of the number of meetings of the cabinet to decide on the NBN? Which one is it, Minister—contempt and dysfunction or meeting after meeting and that you and Mr Rudd are at one on this?