Anne Urquhart (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Opposition and minor party senators have acted in good faith in seeking a spillover hearing for Environment and Communications supplementary estimates for NBN Co. The minister failed to arrange for two of the requested four hours of spillover hearings from the May 2017 budget estimates hearings in the available four months between June and October. After the supplementary estimates, opposition and minor party senators requested three hours of spillover hearings for NBN Co. The minister made no effort to accommodate this very reasonable request until this morning when a date next month was offered. I remind the minister that a fellow senator minister can represent him at the spillover hearing.