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Abbott pledges sleepless NBN vigilance

Tony Abbott has warned Julia Gillard’s government-in-waiting that the Opposition will be “hyper-vigilant” in its monitoring of Labor’s National Broadband Network project for screw-ups.

The revelation this afternoon that rural independents Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor will support Labor to form government means the NBN is likely to go ahead, with both citing the flagship project as one of the key reasons they decided to support Labor above the Coalition.

But in a press conference held this afternoon after the independents’ announcement, Abbott warned Labor the NBN wasn’t on easy street.

“You can be absolutely certain that the Opposition is going to be hyper-vigilant in this area,” he said. “My strong suspicion is that the NBN is going to turn out to be school halls on steroids.”

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