Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications) Share this | Hansard source

And what that is today may be different tomorrow—whereas the Labor Party was driven by ideology into locking itself into one slow and expensive platform.

Take Australia Post. Obviously people are sending fewer letters. Clearly the letters business is getting further and further into the red. What did we do? We did not throw up our hands and say: 'Oh, that is a dreadful thing!' We exposed the problem carefully, we analysed it and we are taking steps to ensure that Australia Post and its 32,000 employees will have a prosperous future well down the track—again, by being agile.

If you look at mobile communications in the bush—the smart phone. Our smart phones are almost part of us. They have become our single most important point of communication. But in the bush there are many blackspots. For six years the Labor Party was in government and they did nothing. We the coalition once again are spending $100 million to remedy those blackspots, and no doubt we will spend more in the future.

Leadership today, whether it is in business or whether it is in government, requires the attitude that the coalition has—an attitude of innovation, progress, embracing technology and volatility, making it your friend, embracing the future, not running away from it, which is the mark of the Labor Party.

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