Steve Fielding (Victoria, Family First Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Minister, recent media reports have revealed a Telstra executive said that the organisation had to be more efficient and run like a dictatorship. The executive said:

We run an absolute dictatorship and that’s what’s going to drive this transformation and deliver results... If you can’t get the people to go there and you try once and you try twice... then you just shoot ‘em and get them out of the way.

Minister, do you agree that Telstra should be run as a dictatorship in a bid to be more efficient, and how do you respond to its attitude to staff of ‘just shoot ’em and get them out of the way’?