Figures tendered to a Senate hearing in October uphold a report in The Australian on Wednesday that set-top boxes delivered under Labor's Household Assistance Scheme, part of its digital TV rollout, could be costing taxpayers an average of $698 each.
Earlier estimates that Senator Conroy yesterday called "dodgy" were, he had written previously, "fact". He told ABC radio yesterday morning the average figure of $698 per installation was "absolutely dishonest" and said the true cost of the program to date had ranged from $158 to $1528.
In October, Nerida O'Loughlin, deputy secretary of the government's Broadband and Digital Switchover Group in Senator Conroy's department, told a Senate estimates committee hearing the cost of the HAS was $308 million from the 2011 budget allocation plus $69.5m from the 2009 allocation.
What would you expect from Mr Internet Filter Steven ConMan? The man is a fool.
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