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

This is a debate that we have had publicly quite a bit. At first Telstra are involved in the process. Ultimately, if the ACCC is unhappy then the minister makes a final determination. All we have done there is add that the finance minister joins with the communications minister to make that final determination. The ACCC and the regulators will have a role in advising the joint ministers, as opposed to what currently happens where they advise only the one minister. So there is a role for the regulators involved in giving advice on this.