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• Xenophon: We wouldn’t have gotten NBN Co business case without PM’s intervention

  Xenophon comments come as pundits see PM’s intervention as a sign of Conroy’s poor performance

• Turnbull’s Transparency Bill fails to pass

  Bill fails to pass 73 votes to 72 despite Independent MP support

• Costello attacks the 'National boondoggle Network' (NBN)

  The former Treasurer picks at the lack of cost benefit analysis for the fibre network.

• Conroy: We’re not walking away from filter

  Oakeshott takes wait-and-see stance

• Conroy: Turnbull knows dial-up, not broadband

  Newly appointed Shadow Communications Minister only has knowledge of old Internet technology, according to Communications Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy.

• NBN: Abbott sets Turnbull on independents

  Turnbull to try and expose problems with NBN and swing independents back to Coalition fold