Carol Brown (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I ask a supplementary question, Mr President. Is the minister aware that 257 call centre employees in Launceston will lose their jobs next February as a result of Telstra’s callous decision to close their call centre? Does this not fly in the face of the promise by the federal member for Bass, Mr Michael Ferguson, who claimed on 17 August 2005 that ‘the sale of Telstra will not disadvantage Northern Tasmania’? What has the minister done to protect the jobs of the 257 employees who face the axe?