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

From the constant interjections opposite, I am sure that Labor is very embarrassed about the policies that it had when it was in government. We need only contrast our approach with the kind of treatment that rural and mobile phone users received under the last Labor government. When last in government, Labor simply shut down the old analog mobile network without having any kind of replacement network in place, leaving rural phone users simply stranded without a service. I think we know that, should they ever get back into government, there is a very dire risk that—