National
Broadband Network
1 July 2009 - 31 December 2009
| |
Matters Current as at 1 July
2009 |
Matters Referred during
period |
Reports tabled that discharge a
reference** |
Current Inquiries as at 31 December
2009 |
| Select Committee |
1 |
0 |
0+(1) |
1 |
| Number and Hours of Meeting |
| |
Public |
Hrs |
Public Estimates |
Hrs |
Private |
Hrs |
Insp/Other |
Hrs |
Total Meetings |
Total Hours |
| Select Committee |
5 |
33:29 |
0 |
0:00 |
10 |
2:48 |
0 |
0:00 |
15 |
36:17 |
| Meetings by State |
| |
ACT |
NSW |
VIC |
TAS |
SA |
WA |
NT |
QLD |
Select
Committee |
11 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| |
Witnesses |
Hansard Pages |
|
|
|
| |
Televised hearings |
Estimates |
Other (Bills) |
General |
Estimates |
Other (Bills) |
General |
No. of submissions |
No. of Pages |
Government Responses |
| Select Committee |
2 |
0 |
0 |
83 |
0 |
0 |
440 |
76 |
561 |
0 |
** includes progress report that did not discharge the reference
Select Committee on National Broadband Network
1 July 2009 to 31 December 2009
Method of appointment
Pursuant to
resolution agreed to by the Senate on 25 June 2008.
Current members
|
Date of appointment
|
|
Senator Mary Jo
Fisher (SA, LP)
(elected Chair on 26.06.08) |
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Fiona
Nash (NSW, NATS)
(elected Deputy Chair on 25.09.08) |
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Simon
Birmingham (SA, LP)
(Deputy Chair 26.06.08–25.09.08) |
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Scott
Ludlam (WA, AG)
|
10.02.09
|
|
Senator Kate
Lundy (ACT, ALP)
|
01.07.08
|
|
Senator the Hon
Ian Macdonald (QLD, LP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Glenn
Sterle (WA, ALP)
|
01.07.08
|
| |
|
Participating members
|
Date of appointment
|
|
Senator the Hon Eric Abetz (TAS, LP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Judith Adams (WA, LP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Chris Back (WA, LP)
|
12.03.09
|
|
Senator Guy Barnett (TAS, LP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Cory Bernardi (SA, LP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Catryna Bilyk (TAS, ALP)
|
01.07.08
|
|
Senator Mark Bishop (WA, ALP)
|
01.07.08
|
|
Senator the Hon Ronald Boswell (QLD, NATS)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Sue Boyce (QLD, LP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator the Hon George Brandis (QLD, LP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Carol Brown (TAS, ALP)
|
01.07.08
|
|
Senator David Bushby (TAS, LP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Doug Cameron (NSW, ALP)
|
01.07.08
|
|
Senator Michaelia Cash (WA, LP)
|
01.07.08
|
|
Senator the Hon Richard Colbeck (TAS, LP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Jacinta Collins (VIC, ALP)
|
01.07.08
|
|
Senator the Hon Helen Coonan (NSW, LP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Mathias Cormann (WA, LP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Trish Crossin (NT, ALP)
|
01.07.08
|
|
Senator Alan Eggleston (WA, LP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Don Farrell (SA, ALP)
|
01.07.08
|
|
Senator David Feeney (VIC, ALP)
|
01.07.08
|
|
Senator the Hon Alan Ferguson (SA, LP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Steve Fielding (VIC, FFP)
|
26.08.08
|
|
Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells (NSW, LP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Mitch Fifield (VIC, LP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Michael Forshaw (NSW, ALP)
|
01.07.08
|
|
Senator Mark Furner (QLD, ALP)
|
01.07.08
|
|
Senator the Hon Bill Heffernan (NSW, LP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Gary Humphries (ACT, LP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Annette Hurley (SA, ALP)
|
01.07.08
|
|
Senator Steve Hutchins (NSW, ALP)
|
01.07.08
|
|
Senator the Hon David Johnston (WA, LP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Barnaby Joyce (QLD, NATS)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Helen Kroger (VIC, LP)
|
01.07.08
|
|
Senator Gavin Marshall (VIC, ALP)
|
01.07.08
|
|
Senator the Hon Brett Mason (QLD, LP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Anne McEwen (SA, ALP)
|
01.07.08
|
|
Senator Julian McGauran (VIC, LP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator the Hon Jan McLucas (QLD, ALP)
|
01.07.08
|
|
Senator the Hon Nicholas Minchin (SA, LP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Claire Moore (QLD, ALP)
|
01.07.08
|
|
Senator Kerry O'Brien (TAS, ALP)
|
01.07.08
|
|
Senator Stephen Parry (TAS, LP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Marise Payne (NSW, LP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Helen Polley (TAS, ALP)
|
01.07.08
|
|
Senator Louise Pratt (WA, ALP)
|
01.07.08
|
|
Senator the Hon Michael Ronaldson (VIC, LP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Scott Ryan (VIC, LP)
|
01.07.08
|
|
Senator the Hon Nigel Scullion (NT, CLP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator the Hon Ursula Stephens (NSW, ALP)
|
01.07.08
|
|
Senator the Hon Judith Troeth (VIC, LP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator Russell Trood (QLD, LP)
|
26.06.08
|
|
Senator John Williams (NSW, NATS)
|
01.07.08
|
|
Senator Dana Wortley (SA, ALP)
|
01.07.08
|
|
Senator Nick Xenophon (SA, IND)
|
01.07.08
|
| |
|
Former participating members
|
Date of appointment
|
|
Senator Mark
Arbib (NSW, ALP)
|
01.07.08–10.03.09
|
|
Senator the Hon
Christopher Ellison (WA, LP)
|
26.06.08–30.01.09
|
|
Senator John Hogg
(QLD, ALP)
|
01.07.08–26.08.08
|
|
Senator Scott
Ludlam (WA, AG)
|
01.07.08–10.02.09
|
Inquiries
As
at 1 July 2009
1)
(a) The Government’s decision to establish a company to
build and operate a National Broadband Network (NBN) to:
i) connect
90 per cent of all Australian homes, schools and workplaces with optical fibre
to the premise (FTTP) to enable broadband services with speeds of 100 megabits
per second;
ii) connect
all other premises in Australia with next generation wireless and satellite
technologies to deliver broadband speeds of 12 megabits per second or more;
iii) directly
support up to 25,000 local jobs every year, on average, over the eight year
life of the project.
(b) The implications
of the NBN for consumers and taxpayers in terms of:
i) service
availability, choice and costs,
ii) competition
in telecommunications and broadband services, and
iii) likely
consequences for national productivity, investment, economic growth, cost of
living and social capital.
2) That
the committee's investigation include, but not be limited to:
a)
any economic and cost/benefit analysis underpinning the NBN;
b)
the ownership, governance and operating arrangements of the NBN company
and any NBN related entities;
c)
any use of bonds to fund the NBN;
d)
any regulations or legislation pertaining to the NBN;
e)
the availability, price, level of innovation and service characteristics
of broadband products presently available, the extent to which those services
are delivered by established and emerging providers, and the prospects for
future improvements in broadband infrastructure and services (including through
private investment);
f)
the effects of the NBN on the availability, price, choice, level of
innovation and service characteristics of broadband products in metropolitan,
outer-metropolitan, semi-rural and rural and regional areas and towns;
g)
the extent of demand for currently available broadband services, the
factors influencing consumer choice for broadband products and the effect on
demand if the Government's FTTP proposal proceeds;
h)
any technical, economic, commercial, regulatory, social or other
barriers that may impede attaining the Government's stated goal for broadband
availability and performance in the specified time frame;
i)
the appropriate public policy goals for communications in Australia and
the nature of any necessary regulatory settings to continue to develop
competitive market conditions, improved services, lower prices and innovation;
j)
the role of government and its relationship with the private sector and
existing private investment in the telecommunications sector;
k)
the effect of the NBN on the delivery of Universal Service Obligations
services; and
l)
whether, and if so to what extent, the former Government's OPEL
initiative would have assisted making higher speed and more affordable
broadband services available.
Terms of reference varied 14 May
2009
Current inquiries
As
at 31 December 2009
1)
(a) The Government’s decision to establish a company to build and operate
a National Broadband Network (NBN) to:
i) connect
90 per cent of all Australian homes, schools and workplaces with optical fibre
to the premise (FTTP) to enable broadband services with speeds of 100 megabits
per second;
ii) connect
all other premises in Australia with next generation wireless and satellite
technologies to deliver broadband speeds of 12 megabits per second or more;
iii) directly
support up to 25,000 local jobs every year, on average, over the eight year
life of the project.
(b) The implications
of the NBN for consumers and taxpayers in terms of:
i) service
availability, choice and costs,
ii) competition
in telecommunications and broadband services, and
iii) likely
consequences for national productivity, investment, economic growth, cost of
living and social capital.
2) That
the committee's investigation include, but not be limited to:
a) any economic and cost/benefit analysis underpinning the NBN;
b)
the ownership, governance and operating arrangements of the NBN company
and any NBN related entities;
c)
any use of bonds to fund the NBN;
d)
any regulations or legislation pertaining to the NBN;
e)
the availability, price, level of innovation and service characteristics
of broadband products presently available, the extent to which those services
are delivered by established and emerging providers, and the prospects for
future improvements in broadband infrastructure and services (including through
private investment);
f)
the effects of the NBN on the availability, price, choice, level of
innovation and service characteristics of broadband products in metropolitan,
outer-metropolitan, semi-rural and rural and regional areas and towns;
g)
the extent of demand for currently available broadband services, the
factors influencing consumer choice for broadband products and the effect on
demand if the Government's FTTP proposal proceeds;
h)
any technical, economic, commercial, regulatory, social or other
barriers that may impede attaining the Government's stated goal for broadband
availability and performance in the specified time frame;
i)
the appropriate public policy goals for communications in Australia and
the nature of any necessary regulatory settings to continue to develop
competitive market conditions, improved services, lower prices and innovation;
j)
the role of government and its relationship with the private sector and
existing private investment in the telecommunications sector;
k)
the effect of the NBN on the delivery of Universal Service Obligations
services; and
l)
whether, and if so to what extent, the former Government's OPEL
initiative would have assisted making higher speed and more affordable
broadband services available.
2A That
the committee is to examine the findings of the National Broadband Network
Implementation Study, the Government's response to the Implementation Study and
any subsequent implications of that report for the National Broadband Network
policy.
Terms of reference varied 26 November 2009
New references
1
July 2009–31 December 2009
Public hearings
1
July 2009–31 December 2009
-
20 July and 1 October 2009, Canberra; 5 August 2009, Sydney; 7
October 2009, Melbourne; 8 October 2009, Hobart, TAS
Reports tabled
1
July 2009–31 December 2009
-
Third report (tabled 26 November 2009)
Government responses
1
July 2009–31 December 2009
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