Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

And of course the list goes on. The shadow shadow communications minister, the member for Bradfield, said in his book:

My fundamental argument is that we need to get the market structure right first; if we do that, the right technology will follow.

Then the member for Bradfield went on to say:

… a market structure in which there are multiple providers of retail telephony and broadband services—and they all operate over the same network on equal terms. For that to happen, none of them must own or control the network. Instead, they must buy services from the owner of the network and in turn the network owner must be restricted to selling services in the wholesale market rather than the retail market.

Those are very wise words indeed from the member for Bradfield. Today I would be saying to the Leader of the Opposition—

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