The Chinese government has conducted aggressive and wide-ranging cyber-espionage operations for decades and their intelligence laws oblige companies to assist these efforts. Placing Chinese telecommunications company Huawei at the centre of Australia's 5G network is just too risky.

The 5G network and the NBN will together form the spinal cord of the Australian economy – high-speed low-latency networks that will enable our information and digital economy to grow. As the Australian economy increasingly relies on high-speed internet connectivity to function, these networks will become increasingly important. That means we need to have the highest levels of trust in the reliability and security of these networks.