To Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and the Australian Labor Party. To Senator Richard Di Natale and the Australian Greens Party. To Senator Nick Xenophon and the Nick Xenophon Team.

To those members of the Coalition who we know are as concerned about this issue as we are.

And to every other politician and political party in Australia.

We write to you today with a simple message: Enough is enough.

We demand that you signal your support for a Royal Commission into the politically motivated destruction of the National Broadband Network project.

Today we demand that every political party signal its support for the only action that can reasonably be taken to investigate the tragic situation where Australia’s largest ever and most important infrastructure project has been brought into these straits.

Today we demand that Australia’s politicians do their job and put an end to this politically motivated madness.

Today we demand that you signal your support for a Royal Commission into the destruction of the NBN.

We may not get our wish for this Royal Commission today.

We may not get it this decade.

But there is no doubt that we will get it.

We will get it because an overwhelming body of evidence exists of severely questionable behaviour in the political management of this project.

We will get it because a Royal Commission is the only mechanism that has sufficient power and independence to investigate the tragic farce that the NBN project has become.

And we will get it because that is what justice and rationality demands.

The National Broadband Network project is literally the foundational infrastructure which will see Australia’s broadband needs for the next century, underpinning all aspects of business, government and our private lives.

We must know how and why this project has been torn down.

So that those who did it can be held to account for their actions.

And so that a tragic farce of this magnitude can never, ever, happen again.