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

I refer the minister to a specific small shareholder in Telstra—not you, Mr President. Is the minister aware that his mother has summed up her Telstra investment by saying, ‘Obviously, the second lot have halved in value.’ Can the minister confirm that his own mother, as well as hundreds of thousands of other small investors, lost $2 per share on her T2 investment—even after dividends? Is the minister so out of touch that he does not even realise his own mother has lost thousands of dollars through the government’s incompetent management of the sale of Telstra?