Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Conroy. I refer the minister to a statement by the then shadow communications minister and now Minister for Finance and Deregulation, Mr Tanner, in February 2003. The statement read:

… Labor believes that whatever the telecommunications policy merits of full structural separation of Telstra may be, the existence of the minority private shareholding in Telstra and the cost and complexity therefore associated with such separation, make that an inappropriate strategy for reforming Telstra.

I ask the minister: is that still Labor Party policy?