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News Archive - September 2006
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29th September, 2006 Prime Minister John Howard has called on Telstra to rethink its "foolish" decision to remove 1,000 payphones from around the country.
Source: The Age - Kate Askew
28th September, 2006 Sol Trujillo is feeling the pressure — it was evident during an unusually frank speech this week to finance executives.
Source: The Age - Katharine Murphy and Malcolm Maiden
28th September, 2006 Telstra chairman Donald McGauchie has defended Sol Trujillo's $8.7 million pay packet.
Source: The Age/AAP
28th September, 2006 Telstra boss Sol Trujillo received a $1.5 million bonus for a strategy plan he paid a US company $54 million to develop, a report says.
Source: ACTU
28th September, 2006 The Downer technicians' contract pay dispute has now entered its second week with Telstra so far refusing to budge.
Source: SMH - Elizabeth Knight
27th September, 2006 It's very hard to get past the idiocy Telstra and the Howard Government have showed in the brawl in which they have become engaged just weeks before the T3 public offering.
Source: The Age - Alan Kohler
27th September, 2006 It seems to me the feud between the Government and Telstra's board and management is about trust. PM John Howard doesn't like or trust MD Sol Trujillo.
Source: The Age - Michelle Grattan, Katharine Murphy and Matt O'Sullivan
27th September, 2006 Federal Treasurer Peter Costello has demanded the board of Telstra justify millions of dollars in payments to its executives, including a $2.6 million bonus to chief executive Sol Trujillo.
Source: ABC TV - Lateline transcript 26/09/2006 - Natasha Simpson
27th September, 2006 The Federal Treasurer has challenged the Telstra board to explain its reasons for paying the CEO Sol Trujillo nearly $9 million.
Source: The Age - Ben Doherty
26th September, 2006 Last year, the Prime Minister's chief of staff, Arthur Sinodinos, nominated Mr Cousins as one of half-a-dozen individuals whose feedback Mr Howard actively sought out.
Source: ABC Online
26th September, 2006 Angry Federal Government backbenchers have seized on the dispute over an appointment to Telstra's board as a reason for the chief executive, Sol Trujillo, to be sacked.
Source: Herald Sun - Byron Kaye and Scott Murdoch
26th September, 2006 Tensions between Telstra and the Government reignited yesterday with chief executive Sol Trujillo accusing the Prime Minister of "skipping due diligence".
Source: SMH - Lisa Murray and David Humphries
26th September, 2006 Animosity and distrust between the Federal Government and Telstra plumbed new depths yesterday.
Source: The Age
26th September, 2006 Telstra is warning the forced appointment of former federal government spin doctor Geoff Cousins to the company's board could affect the sell-off of the government's final stake in the telco.
Source: The Australian - Byron Kaye
25th September, 2006 Telstra is ramping up its small business operations to win back 500,000 small business clients it admits it has neglected for years.
Source: The Age - Michelle Grattan
25th September, 2006 A Labor government would use the Telstra shares it inherited to influence, not control, the giant telco, Opposition finance spokesman Lindsay Tanner said.
Source: The Age - Malcolm Maiden
25th September, 2006 Any lingering doubts about the depth of the Government's unhappiness with the Telstra board were wiped out when the Government nominated Geoffrey Cousins for election as a director.
Source: The Age
25th September, 2006 Telstra is set to oppose Prime Minister John Howard's plan to install former communications executive Geoff Cousins on the board of the telco.
Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
22nd September, 2006 Telcos wanting all or part of the Government's $600 million kitty to extend the reach of broadband to rural and remote Australia would have to agree to share the network with their rivals for 10 years.
Source: ABC Online
21st September, 2006 Serious questions have been raised about the competency of Telstra boss, Sol Trujillo, during his time as CEO of US West - one of America's biggest telephone companies.
Source: SBS-TV transcript - Chris Hammer
21st September, 2006 Sol Trujillo wasn't available, but one of his amigos was. Phil Burgess is in charge of public policy at Telstra. Like his boss, he's no stranger to controversy.
Source: SBS-TV transcript - Chris Hammer
21st September, 2006 REPORTER: In San Diego, California, they remember Sol Trujillo. And how did he perform? RUDY FISCHER: I'd say he performed dismally.
Source: ABC Online
20th September, 2006 A federal Liberal MP has vowed to "name and shame" employers who try to exploit their workers under the Government's new industrial relations laws.
Source: The Australian
20th September, 2006 The CEPU says that rural-based Downer contractors are now being paid $80 instead of $105 for repairing most rural telephone faults and $38 instead of $87 for installing a telephone on an existing line.
Source: The Age/AAP
19th September, 2006 More than 100 Telstra contractors are refusing to repair and install phones in rural NSW because of pay cuts that make their jobs untenable, unions say.
Source: ABC Radio - AM - Transcript - Stephen Long
15th September, 2006 The increase in interest rates has seen a rise in the number of people losing their homes. Court figures show a big increase in house repossessions in New South Wales and Victoria.
Source: ABC Online
15th September, 2006 The Communications Minister, Helen Coonan, is urging Telstra to tread carefully when considering charging schools more money for renting telephone lines.
Source: ACTU
14th September, 2006 A central feature of the ACTU's new policy proposal is to ensure workers have the right to bargain collectively and that workers can have a collective agreement if that is what a majority of workers in a workplace want.
Source: ABC Online
13th September, 2006 Telstra will not fight the Tasmanian Government's decision to exclude it from a call for tenders for broadband Internet services through the Basslink fibre optic cable.
Source: Courier-Mail - Byron Kaye
13th September, 2006 Telstra yesterday cut 75 jobs by outsourcing its supply chain operations to IBM, advancing boss Sol Trujillo's aim to slash 12,000 positions overall.
Source: The Australian
12th September, 2006 The competition watchdog has issued a draft decision to reject Telstra's proposed price for the use of its fixed line services by its rivals.
Source: The Australian - David Uren
11th September, 2006 Telstra's top brass was insulated from the share price fall last year with their bonuses, which went up despite the fall in profit.
Source: The Age - Garry Barker
11th September, 2006 The Competitive Carriers' Coalition has accused Telstra's senior executives of "making short-term decisions … to get maximum short-term incentive payments.
Source: SMH - Lisa Murray
11th September, 2006 Telstra's competitors have accused it of using technicians to lure customers back from rival service providers, a claim the company denies.
Source: ACTU
8th September, 2006 A Melbourne electrical manufacturer is refusing to pay employees because the workers have banned extra overtime.
Source: The Age - Jason Koutsoukis
8th September, 2006 Phil Burgess, the big-talking Indiana native who has infuriated everyone in the Federal Government, is planning a memoir of his time in Australia.
Source: The Age - Matt O'Sullivan
8th September, 2006 Telstra is continuing to wage a battle against regulation despite assurances it will retain a measured tone during the T3 sale.
Source: The Age - Matt O'Sullivan and Lisa Murray
7th September, 2006 Telstra is expected to switch on its $1.1 billion third-generation mobile network as soon as October 6.
Source: ACTU
7th September, 2006 The ACTU will host a major community event to protest against the Federal Government's IR laws at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on November 30.
Source: Herald Sun - Erica Thompson
6th September, 2006 Telstra has shrugged off a move by rival telco Optus to seek government funding to build its own regional broadband network.
Source: The Age - Alan Kohler
6th September, 2006 Ten years ago Telstra and Optus each spent $3 billion on two high-speed access networks using a combination of fibre and coaxial cable, an adventure regarded everywhere, except within Telstra, as a wasteful calamity.
Source: Daily Telegraph - Byron Kaye
5th September, 2006 Federal Finance Minister Nick Minchin was again forced to defend his mother's disastrous Telstra investment yesterday, saying she "knows the risks".
Source: ABC Online
5th September, 2006 Labor Senator Michael Forshaw says a document distributed by Senator Nick Minchin may break the law, as it tells MPs to "spruik the particularly attractive dividend for T3".
Source: The Age - Jesse Hogan
4th September, 2006 When Telstra revealed it had sold its Australian Administration Services business, the telco's top brass were quick to reiterate that KAZ would not be the next to go.
Source: The Australian - Scott Murdoch
1st September, 2006 Future Fund chief David Murray has conceded he is sympathetic to the regulatory battle that has hampered the Telstra T3 sale.
Source: SMH - Matt O'Sullivan
1st September, 2006 Telstra has made its first foray into mainland China after buying a controlling stake in a real estate website for $333 million.
Source: The Age - David Kennedy
1st September, 2006 New services, rather than speed, are the core issue for Telstra and Optus.
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