Senate debates

Tuesday, 13 September 2011

Committees

Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Fibre Deployment) Bill 2011

6:25 pm

Photo of Simon BirminghamSimon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

That is right! Inverell is going to have a gold-plated service! To come back to the point: the question really is particular to this bill. If you have such confidence in the industry self-regulatory requirements that are there at present and they operate effectively to ensure that the industry has a good self-regulatory standard in place, why do you need in this bill the capacity to set the conditions and specify an instrument that is specified in clauses 372B(4) and 372C(4)? Why do you need those provisions if the self-regulatory standard that you outlined before works so effectively?

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