Catryna Bilyk (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Communications, Senator Fifield. On 12 December 2013 Mr Turnbull said that his strategic review of the NBN was a 'thorough and objective analysis'. I refer to leaked nbn documents—

Senator Ian Macdonald interjecting—

which show that the cost of fixing up the old copper network that Mr Turnbull bought back from Telstra has blown out by up to 900 per cent. Did this government direct nbn to roll out a second-rate network on the basis of advice that was hopelessly wrong?