Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the government’s nomination of Geoff Cousins to the Telstra board outside of the usual independence and propriety tests. Doesn’t the Telstra prospectus include a damning indictment of the suitability of Mr Cousins as a Telstra board member? Can the Prime Minister inform the House how it is in the interests of Telstra’s 1.6 million shareholders for the government to appoint a mate as a government stooge to the Telstra board?

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