Deborah O'Neill (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Communications, Senator Fifield. The minister said, in this place on 14 October, that under Labor's plan:

… the NBN was not going to be completed until 2028 and Labor's cost was going to be $20 billion to $30 billion more.

Is the minister aware that the nbn CEO, Bill Morrow, contradicted this statement when testifying to a Senate committee, stating that the analysis included in the nbn's corporate plan does not attempt to cost Labor's NBN policy but instead costs a hypothetical restart of an all-fibre build? Was the minister mistaken or did he deliberately mislead the Senate regarding the nbn's hypothetical cost analysis?