Opposition leader Tony Abbott called on Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Monday's parliamentary session to clarify if the deal she forged with the Australian Green Party would still ensure the planned privatisation of the national broadband network following its full implementation.

The Greens threw its support behind the NBN project of the federal government and Ms Gillard's priority legislation that would mandate for the separation of Telstra Corporation's retail and wholesale division, which the government said is crucial for the successful roll out of NBN.

In exchange, Ms Gillard has given her assurance to the Australian Greens that the parliament would have to approve the eventual privatisation of NBN Co once the project has achieved total implementation.

However, Mr Abbot asked the government if the deal would mean the ditching of its elections commitment to privatise the NBN as the Liberal party leader noted that the Greens appeared to be slowly dominating the major policies of the Labor-led government.

Ms Gillard countered that her government has been intending to submit the NBN's privatisation through parliamentary review to begin with and that intention has not been lost despite the so-called collusions of the Greens with Labor on the NBN project.

The prime minister, at the same time, urged Mr Abbott to allow the NBN legislation to proceed as she reminded the opposition leader that further blocking of the measure would also mean undermining the realisation of an important micro-economic reform.

Also, Ms Gillard thwarted Mr Abbott's questioning by hinting the questionable integrity of the opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull in explicitly noting that "the Member for Wentworth now has 10 million reasons to support the NBN as well."

Clearly, the prime minister was taking a swipe on Mr Turnbull's reported $10 million worth of shares in a tech firm that according to Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan would stand to benefit on the NBN project.

However, Mr Turnbull seemed undeterred by the criticisms directed to him by the government as he argued, without denying the allegations, that his vehement opposition on the billion-dollar NBN project only showed that "I am a person of great integrity whose personal investments don't influence his public policy."