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This week, Bill Morrow, the chief executive of NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network, did something he's never done before: he made a statement that ruffled the feathers of his masters in Canberra.

Two members of the Labor Party's shadow cabinet have called on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to provide details about how the anticipated lack of income from the national broadband network will affect the federal budget.

What's wrong with Australia's national broadband network? That's a hoary old chestnut which has been asked and answered many times over the last five years or more, so when the ABC ran a programme asking the same question, it could only come up with the same answers as before. But in much less detail.