Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance and Administration) Share this | Hansard source

That is a completely bizarre question. They are accusing us of breaking promises. What we are trying to do is honour a promise we made to the Australian people to relieve them of this shareholding in Telstra. It is this mob over here that is trying to make us break our promise. They have been doing that for the last eight years by opposing our proposals for a further sale of Telstra and by so doing they have cost taxpayers $50 billion already. Mr Swan is out there talking down Telstra, trying to sabotage this sale.