Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

‘I think what you saw Senator Coonan say late in the week was that the company should do the things that we were doing, in terms of removing uneconomic investments.’ Since the minister conceded yesterday that the USO protects only 7,500 of Telstra’s 32,000 payphones and that Telstra should look at some rationalisation of payphones, the question is: why has the minister given the green light to the removal of up to 25,000 payphones if Telstra deems them uneconomic? Will the minister now release the list and map of Telstra’s payphone cuts?