Ursula Stephens (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Science and Water) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I am glad to hear that the minister takes those responsibilities seriously, because the local member for Wollongong has written to both the minister and Telstra seeking some clarification about the USO provisions of this phone. In the light of the value of the phone, why won’t the minister, having had this raised with her, include this phone under the Telstra universal service obligation and why is the minister making the most vulnerable in our community pay for this ideological obsession about privatising Telstra?