Lying, misleading and acting in contempt of the senate.
NBN Co chief executive Ziggy Switkowski was accused of all of the above and more by Labor senator Stephen Conroy during a fiery senate estimates hearing on Tuesday.
Yet in a rare show of praise from the former communications minister, the coalition-appointed Dr Switkowski is still "doing the job as good as anyone could".
Regardless, the committee still had to break twice for "private meetings" due to the relentless nature of Senator Conroy's questioning of the former Telstra chief executive.
In the first instance, Senator Conroy accused Dr Switkowski of lying to the senate and then refused to retract the statement when this was demanded by the chair, until after a minute-long adjournment.
"Could we space out these subcommittee hearings, perhaps?" Dr Switkowski pleaded during NBN Co's fifth appearance before the senate in recent months.
"We're traversing the same sort of ground."
Senator Conroy kicked off his grilling by claiming NBN Co's roll-out targets had set the bar "as low as a pencil on the floor" for political purposes, so they could easily meet their targets.
Senator Conroy pointed out NBN Co contractors are currently running fibre past an average of 5,000 premises per week, about double the number of premises required to meet the company's June 2014 overall target of 357,000 premises.
Dr Switkowski admitted it was possible NBN Co could easily exceed a total of 400,000 premises passed by the end of June.
"Your algebra is certainly right," he said.
Senator Conroy also took issue with Dr Switkowski for previously advising the senate that monthly ready for service reports - which are internally produced documents - would be an unnecessary drain on NBN Co's resources if published online, as they were under the previous government.
"You simply have to press a button and it appears on a website. There is no diversion of resources," Senator Conroy said.
"It's actually misleading the senate, it's a contempt of the senate, to treat the senate like that."
The government's acting communications spokesman Senator Mitch Fifield hit back at Senator Conroy for "bandying around phrases such as `contempt of the senate' like confetti".
"Is it treason as well?"
