Helen Coonan (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

To start with, Senator Webber is dead wrong. This government continue to look at the regulatory settings and to monitor them on an ongoing basis. We certainly have reviewed the arrangements on many occasions in the lead-up to the sale of Telstra and will continue to monitor and make adjustments where it is appropriate to do so. What is important in this debate is that Australians have services that they can afford and that the services are comparable right across the country. It is important that the voters of this country try to understand that Labor will roll back consumer safeguards and will roll back the competition that provides these services right across the country, irrespective of where they live.