Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Communications, Senator Fifield. In April 2013, the now Prime Minister promised his second-rate NBN would cost $29.5 billion and said his plan was 'very conservative'. In December 2013, the now Prime Minister said his second-rate NBN would cost $41 billion and the assumptions were 'conservative and achievable'. In August this year, the now Prime Minister admitted his second-rate NBN would cost up to $56 million and said:

… all of us can have real confidence in the numbers …

Minister, how can anyone have any confidence in this government's numbers when the Prime Minister has gotten every single one of his NBN costs so hopelessly wrong?