Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

That's right: Senator Hume was asked to confirm her position on if she would support legislation to not sell the NBN, and she refused, saying it wasn't that simple.

We then had another Liberal member backing in Senator Hume—solidarity forever!—confirming that it has always been in contemplation that the NBN would be privatised. Lastly, we saw the shadow minister for communications trying to mop it all up on Radio National, but he wouldn't commit to supporting our bill either.