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News, Telecommunications - Thursday, May 17, 2012 11:35 - 102 Comments
NBN no CommBank or Qantas, says Hockey
news Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey has taken an axe to the Federal Government’s budget treatment of its National Broadband Network project, arguing that NBN Co is not an asset like previous government-owned companies such as Qantas or the Commonwealth Bank, which were eventually successfully privatised.
In a post-budget address to the National Press Club this week, Hockey said that one of the reasons why Government debt kept rising while the budget was “supposedly” in surplus was that spending on the NBN and other projects such as the Clean Energy Finance Corporation were “off-budget” and financed through increased Government borrowings. “If both entities are treated on budget then the $1.5 billion surplus forecast for next year would be a $4.3 billion deficit,” Hockey said. “Add in the $8 billion of money shuffles and the deficit would be $12 billion.”
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