Lindsay Tanner (Melbourne, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

Will Telstra still be susceptible to FOI? No. What we will have is de facto public ownership through the Future Fund but without the public accountability that used to prevail. Broadband is still on the never-never; the government has no strategy to tackle the No. 1 infrastructure issue in this country. Way more important than the question of who owns Telstra shares is how Australia is going to get amongst the world-leading countries such as Canada, the United States and Korea and the countries of Western Europe and have high-speed, high-class broadband services that are the basis for future economic activities in this country.

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