David Bradbury (Lindsay, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to speak in support of the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2009. This is a very significant bill for the House because the measures contained within it are some of the most important measures that will be passed by this parliament. I am confident they will be passed and that is because when each and every member of this parliament—whether it be in this place or in the Senate—reflects upon their duty to the people that have elected them to this place they will come to the inescapable conclusion that these measures are the right measures to embark upon.

It has been a very unsatisfactory regulatory arrangement that we have had in place in the telecommunications sector in this country, for many years. That has been widely acknowledged.

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