Sacked NBN director Brad Orgill lashes Turnbull, Conroy Malcolm Turnbull: "Declined to even meet with the [NBN] board." Sacked NBN Co director Brad Orgill has slammed interference in the national broadband network from both sides of politics, claiming the rollout was dysfunctional under Labor and lashing new Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull over his purge of the board. Mr Orgill said that when he joined the board in September 2012, parts of NBN Co were dysfunctional and that delays in the rollout were unacceptable. Mr Orgill was the only director who refused to voluntarily resign from the board last week. Stephen Conroy: construction delays were "unacceptable" under the former minister. "I chose not to resign with all other board members . . . [because of] my weariness at politics overshadowing fair process," he said in an exclusive opinion piece in Friday's Australian Financial Review. That [Mr Turnbull] declined to even meet with the board before demanding all to resign was disappointing. Former Telstra boss Ziggy Switkowski was on Thursday appointed chairman of the new NBN Co board. In his opinion piece, Mr Orgill claimed Mr Turnbull's decision to sack him from the board on Thursday was directly related to his role investigating Labor's Building the Education Revolution (BER) Program. This approach rekindled memories of an earlier Coalition agenda to eliminate unfair dismissal provision. In an apparent swipe at Senator ­Conroy, Mr Orgill said NBN Co was in a bad state when he joined the board and that the construction delays were "unacceptable." Has there been political involvement in operations? Yes," he said. "I was struck by the dysfunctional nature of various NBN operational aspects but also impressed by what had been achieved in many of the workstreams," he said. We could have got the local network component back on track to complete as scheduled by 2021. David Ramli and James Hutchinson