It only cost the taxpayer about half a million dollars for Parliament to sit today, but at least the folks in Canberra managed to get the job done. The bill to force a separation of Telstra’s wholesale and retail arms has just been passed. Who’s up for some champagne?
Fistbeard McTavish
Monday, November 29, 2010 at 2:47 PMOH YEAH, BABY!
Now maybe in another 6 years I can get off the shitty rim exchange I’m on and actually get speeds above my 350kb maximum and stay connected for more than an hour without line drop out! WHOOO!
Passing the bill is all well and good, but they’ll shuffle their feet in getting all this off the ground and running. It’s a start though, which is good.
Greg
Monday, November 29, 2010 at 3:14 PMImportant to note that even though Malcolm Turnbull said he supported the structural separation of Telstra, today he voted against it.
Our favourite Comms Minister Conroy got it right (for once) by describing this as “a fail”
Also the final vote was done just on the voices, not a full formal division – suggesting even the opposition are so embarrassed by their own tactics that they don’t want their votes recorded in Hansard for future generations to see.
Brendan
Monday, November 29, 2010 at 3:36 PMThe question still remains: Will this stop “the Spams and scams coming through the portal”?
attila
Monday, November 29, 2010 at 5:08 PMStill trotting out the bogus $500,000 figure? Wasn’t it Seamus who criticised Turnbull for using a bogus number regarding the NBN cost?
G
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 5:01 PM+1
Graeme
Monday, November 29, 2010 at 8:04 PM$500,000 for an extra day of sitting in parliment that produced a definite result, compared to a drawn out week of inaction by an ineffective Opposition costing thousands more $$$$. I wonder what the true cost of their delaying tactics really were.