Minchin slams Telstra separation bill

couldnt run the insulation package ,what hope the nbn

Ok jon,

The government did make real errors of judgement in the case of the diabolic home insulation scheme, that I am agreed with you!

What is so ironic with this whole (NBN) situation is here we have his high and mighty Senator Minchin championing the cause for poor little Telstra telco! What a joke this whole mess is turning into, it would not surprise me that he is secretly on Telstra payroll as a lobbyist!!

Also, he further delays and keeps moving to block senate debate. The Nationals, spineless as they are, have capitulated to toe the Libs line, where is the fair go for the long suffering Fraudband Slow connection customers in the bush hey Barnaby (Mr Joyce) & Sen Fiona Nash. Also Sen Fielding needs a wake up call before he helps preside over a stronger & increasingly monopolistic telco to the detriment of the small customers, I thought your Party was FAMILY FIRST not BIG CORPORATES FIRST Mr Fielding!!

For a multiple Term previous Lib goverment that procrastinated on connecting us up, we have fallen to be behind countries like Turkey and Asia, at least the NBN is getting on with the job with Tassie lighting up in July and the main backbone going in the ground in the outback, all Mr Alston, Sen Coonan and others got us was tied up in legal stouses and also involving the ACCC & have Telstra ploughed the needed dollars back into the blackspots of the telco region NO NO NO we have seen farmers up here connected to exchanges that have been lightning damaged and the weak Telstra refuses to re run cable, just hands them a Sat Phone, what cr@p when they rake in the billions. They have been gaming the entire system and milking the poor customer for an age, when will this abuse of market dominance stop? It can only stop with COMPETITION, proper COMPETITION not the charade that the Libs left us with.

For goodness sake lets split them and get this country decent broadband services at say 40 to 50 bucks price points per month, for an average connection, FASTER expect to pay a bit more but NOT the SCARE mongering numbers Mr Minchin and his crony mates in the Liberals have been quoting.

Let this Bill pass and get on with the job we elect all you to get done on our behalf, in other words Cut the Cr@p and get on with IT

Keith C
Qld

Telstra was a goverment company. It is sold to public few ears ago. So what is the point of NBN. Telstra was NBN. Why it was sold.at first place. Why this stupid government is playing with mums and dads money. The current example T3 was sold on $3.60 and now share price is $3.00. It may down drasctly if bill is passed. In other words mum and dad will loose so much money and what they will get in retunr nothing but old tesltra (governemt). This NBM is nothing but to make few friends rich. This whole thing is joke.

The government has no business interfering with an individual company in this way. In any other environment this would be seen as blackmail. The Labor government have always wanted to re nationalise the telco industry. In most other countries the type of legislation proposed would be illegal. There is plenty of competition in the market and I might add that know private company was willing to build the NBN as the business case didn't exist and this legislation is necessary so only a few billion of tax payers money is lost not 100's of billions.

I suggest that the 1.4m mums and dads who own Telstra shares vote against the ALP at the next election in disgust. That many voters is more than enough to change the government. Bring on the election on any of the double dissolution triggers the voters can't wait.