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

Thank you for the supplementary question. Whilst I would never make this comment myself, I have noticed that there has been some commentary that has referred to Mr Burgess as a ‘Telstra windbag’. But the important point here is that Australia now has over 3.9 million broadband subscribers and that we rate very strongly when it comes to the take-up of broadband—now No. 2 in the OECD. The important point for the purposes of this debate is that the Labor Party are backing the campaign by Telstra, the biggest telecommunications provider in this country, who want to roll over consumers’ rights and roll back regulation.