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

I am fully aware of his comments. These mistakes have led to very serious implications for the development of competition in the telco industry. This was his company’s submission in June 2009, a few months ago. Paul Broad also made some interesting comments on coalition policy back in 2005, on structural reform of Telstra, when he said:

The energy industry did the reform and did it right. In fact the states that did the energy reform—and I have just spent seven years running an energy company—did it right. The feds that did the telco one got it wrong.

That is Mr Broad’s consistent, long-term position as is stated from 2005 to 2009. I cannot speak for Mr Broad but he did say on structural separation— (Time expired)