Source: ABC Online
29th June, 2006

Kim Beazley has praised the patriotism of Australians who attended yesterday's national rallies against the Government's industrial relations changes.

Source: SMH - Elizabeth Knight
29th June, 2006

Sol Trujillo fronts the National Press Club today, but he will restrict his comments on the progress of the showpiece in his bold new strategy - it's looking very shaky.

Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
29th June, 2006

A coalition of Telstra's rivals has rubbished the dominant telco's plan to spend $3.1 billion upgrading its broadband network.

Source: ACTU
29th June, 2006

Around 300,000 people have attended rallies across Australia, sending a strong message to the Howard Government that the Australian public opposes the new IR laws.

Source: ABC Online
28th June, 2006

Unions opposed to the Federal Government's industrial relations (IR) laws will hold rallies in capital cities today as part of a national day of protest.

Source: SMH
28th June, 2006

Almost 30,000 people, carrying banners and waving flags, have turned out in western Sydney to protest against the Federal Government's industrial relations changes.

Source: ACTU
26th June, 2006

New 'independent contractor' laws introduced into Federal Parliament last Thursday will give big business the power to push down contract rates.

Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
26th June, 2006

Sol Trujillo has boasted that his decades-long experience has landed Telstra mates' rates, saving at least $70 million in spending.

Source: SMH - Lisa Murray
26th June, 2006

The Federal Government is hoping to sell its $24 billion stake in Telstra through a full retail offer.

Source: The Age
26th June, 2006

Telstra has indicated it could scrap its proposed $2 billion next generation broadband network.

Source: ABC-TV - Inside Business transcript 25/06/06 - Alan Kohler
26th June, 2006

The first year of Sol Trujillo's tenure as Telstra's head honcho is almost up. It's been a year characterised by rapid change and fierce battles.

Source: Daily Telegraph - Terry McCrann
24th June, 2006

Telstra's revolutionary change to home-phone pricing – unlimited, untimed, local and long-distance calls, at a price – is a turning point in telecommunications.

Source: The Age - Colin Kruger
24th June, 2006

Communications Minister Helen Coonan has approved Telstra's plans for the operational separation of its retail and wholesale businesses.

Source: The Age
23rd June, 2006

The long-awaited decision on who will get Telstra's huge media planning and buying accounts has been made.

Source: callcentres.net
23rd June, 2006

Telstra\'s customer sales, service and network maintenance arms will bear the brunt of the telco\'s plan to slash 2,600 jobs over the next two years.

Source: ABC Online
22nd June, 2006

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has found the telecommunications industry is progressively becoming more competitive

Source: Australian IT - Michael Sainsbury
22nd June, 2006

The nation's $33 billion telecommunications market is about to shift into reverse for the first time since Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

Source: The Age - Sandra O'Malley
22nd June, 2006

The Government's impending sale of its stake in Telstra should not be linked to the telco's proposed $3 billion fibre network.

Source: The Land
21st June, 2006

The NSW Nationals have called for guarantees there will be no differential between urban and rural phone, fax and Internet line rental charges.

Source: callcentres.net
21st June, 2006

Singapore-owned, Australian telco Optus has signaled an expansion of its outsourced Indian call centre operations.

Source: SMH - John Garnaut
21st June, 2006

Telstra will cut 2600 jobs over two years, with the axe falling with a thud in NSW.

Source: The Age
20th June, 2006

An independent analyst's report has given Telstra boss Sol Trujillo a fail mark on his first year at the head of the telco.

Source: SMH - John Garnaut
20th June, 2006

Thousands of Telstra workers will learn within the next week that they are about to be sacked.

Source: The Australian - Michael Sainsbury
16th June, 2006

Optus has threatened to make the planned sale of Telstra difficult if the dominant telco does not strike a deal with rivals.

Source: The Age - Stephen Bartholomeusz
16th June, 2006

Telstra has failed to budge the ACCC even a degree from its hardline position on one of the critical regulatory issues confronting the company.

Source: The Age - Leon Gettler
16th June, 2006

The ACCC has signalled that Telstra will not be allowed to charge rivals a single national wholesale fee to access its copper-wire network.

Source: The Age - Meaghan Shaw
16th June, 2006

A Gold Coast printing worker was sacked for contacting his union over roster changes that would have cut his pay by $160 a week.

Source: ACTU
15th June, 2006

The Howard Government is ignoring official data that shows AWAs are being extensively used under the new IR laws to cut the take home pay and to axe penalties.

Source: SMH
13th June, 2006

Any Telstra shares transferred to the Future Fund would be held in a separate vehicle to prevent the stake from distorting the fund's performance.

Source: The Australian - James Riley
12th June, 2006

Telstra will be forced to ask communities directly what harm the removal of payphones will have before the company is allowed to rip them out.

Source: The Age - Michelle Grattan
12th June, 2006

Kim Beazley has sharpened the industrial relations divide by pledging to scrap the controversial Australian Workplace Agreements.

Source: The Land
12th June, 2006

Helen Coonan has called for expressions of interest from phone companies for large scale infrastructure projects under the Government's $878 million Broadband Connect program.

Source: SMH - Lisa Murray
9th June, 2006

Telstra will face an uphill battle to remove payphones from remote areas after the Federal Government introduced tough new rules.

Source: SMH
7th June, 2006

An obscure ruling by the Australian Competition Tribunal late last week may prove to be bad news for Telstra's crucial regulatory battle with the ACCC.

Source: The Age
7th June, 2006

Surely the legal torture required to get better access to Telstra's existing networks is a sign that something different should be tried.

Source: SMH
6th June, 2006

Four federal government bodies traded in Telstra shares in the month after a controversial briefing to cabinet by the telco's chief executive Sol Trujillo.

Source: ACTU
6th June, 2006

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has listed Australia's IR laws for an immediate hearing alongside cases from Libya, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Guatemala.

Source: ABC Online
5th June, 2006

Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile says the Federal Government will not change its position on selling the remainder of Telstra.

Source: SMH - Lisa Murray
2nd June, 2006

The ACCC has played down the significance of its talks with Telstra about a new high-speed broadband network.

Source: The Age
2nd June, 2006

The competition regulator gave its strongest indication yet that Telstra could scrap its proposed $2 billion next generation broadband network by the end of this month.

Source: ABC Online
1st June, 2006

Vodafone Australia says it does not expect to be affected by the restructuring of operations at its parent company's UK headquarters.

Source: SMH
1st June, 2006

Vodafone Group PLC reported a record net loss of STG21.9 billion ($53.79 billion) in the year ending March 31, but share prices closed unchanged.