Dana Wortley (SA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Again we see, in the answers provided today, an out-of-touch government, a government grappling for answers, a government demonstrating arrogance. On this issue of Telstra, we see the Howard government again putting its own ideology ahead of the national interest. We see a government out of touch with the Australian people, out of touch with the innocent mum and dad shareholders who listened when the Prime Minister told them T2 was a great deal and when he said that it was a marvellous opportunity for more of the mums and dads in Australia to buy shares in this great enterprise. We know many believed him. Senator Joyce’s mum and dad did and so too did Senator Minchin’s.