Trish Crossin (NT, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Isn’t it true that, in fact, yesterday the minister told the Senate in question time:

We all know that Telstra have John Utting, Labor’s pollster, on their payroll.

Why is it that when the minister cannot win the policy debate she resorts to bizarre personal attacks on Telstra in the parliament? Doesn’t the minister’s increasingly desperate and paranoid behaviour show her complete incompetence and the fact that she has lost control of her portfolio?