Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

This government’s reforms will strengthen consumer safeguards to ensure that all Australians, including those in rural and regional Australia, have access to high quality telecommunications services. We will toughen the universal service obligation and the customer service guarantee to ensure that consumers have access to high quality telecommunications services, no matter where they live. Many in the community have expressed concerns about the removal of pay phones. Senator Bushby, for example, has complained that Telstra should not be allowed to remove pay phones from Burnie island—