Ms Catherine King (Ballarat, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr Speaker. Of course, when in government, they rushed to declare that the NBN was complete so that they could flog it off. They supported significant price rises across the NBN products to fatten up income streams in preparation for sale. And I was here when they privatised Telstra. We had Kay Hull here just yesterday. I remember arguing with her in the corridors, asking, 'Why on earth did the National Party vote for the privatisation of Telstra?' We know what that has meant for trying to get services into the regions and what it has meant for affordable pricing of telecommunications. You have form on privatisation. You sold the regions out when it came to Telstra, and you'll do it again.

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