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

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Will the minister now come clean and just admit that the nomination of Mr Cousins is a last minute abuse of the government’s majority shareholding, designed to spy on and undermine the independence of the Telstra board? Won’t Telstra shareholders be the losers from this disgraceful nomination?