Helen Coonan (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

This is just getting too silly. I have answered this question as a very serious matter that affects consumers and I have given information that will assist consumers, particularly in relation to educational institutions. What I do want to say is that, of course, with what the Labor Party was going to offer this country, you would only have a payphone; you certainly would not have a mobile phone because they turned off the analog spectrum. You could not even have a mobile phone. You would have had a 40-kilobit dial-up internet service and you would have blown $5 billion for the consumer. You cannot trust Labor—certainly not when it comes to telecommunications.