Posted April 01, 2020 11:59:52The Government has been asked to answer questions about the costs of the National Broadband Network (NBN) by the Opposition and some Greens MPs, with Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls and Greens leader Christine Milne both calling for a full public inquiry.

Labor and the Greens are demanding answers to the following questions:1.

Why has the Government been spending billions of dollars on the NBN so far?2.

Why have so many of the costs associated with the NBN been paid for by the taxpayer?3.

What is the Government doing to ensure that taxpayers will be on the hook for the NBN?4.

How will the NBN help the unemployed?

Labor’s shadow Minister for Communications, Malcolm Turnbull, has said that it will be up to the Government to answer these questions, and he has asked the Opposition Leader, Christine MilNE, to make an urgent call to the Minister for Transport, Mick Wallace, to come out and answer these issues.

The Government says the NBN is expected to be completed by 2021, with the first line to be installed in 2020.

However, the Coalition is planning to start construction of the first of the new lines by 2021 and is yet to deliver any of the remaining lines.

The Coalition’s NBN rollout has been criticized for the cost overruns, and the Opposition is calling for the Government and the Coalition to come clean on how much taxpayers are on the line for the construction of NBN Co.

Mr Wallace said the Government was doing a good job but there was no public accounting.

“The cost of building a NBN is a complex matter and the Government is not doing a great job in coming to an honest and transparent conclusion as to how much taxpayer’s money they are putting in to this project,” he said.

“It will be interesting to see what the Government does about that issue.”

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