George Campbell (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Isn’t columnist Stephen Bartholomeusz right when he says:

If the—

Telstra—

shares were parked in the Future Fund they would overhang the market for Telstra shares, imposing a ceiling of sorts on any upside.

Is the government so out of touch that the minister now wants to force Telstra’s 1.6 million shareholders, who have already suffered massive losses on their investment, to pay the price for its incompetent management of the sale of Telstra?