What are the advantages of privatizing Telstra and how does this impact it"s ethical conduct while striving to satisfy community expectations? I believe that putting important public assets into select private hands is not in Australia"s long-term interests, and oppose the partial/full sale of Telstra for the reasons that the Government has given. The argument the Government has given for the privatization and corporatisation of Telstra has been a budget conscious one where the proceeds of Telstra will provide a "one-off" opportunity to: 1 abolish Telstra"s pastoral call rate and provide untimed local calls in extended zones in remote Australia;...
Information. NOTE ~ not part of essay: is this highly unlikely as such changes in operational efficiency would destroy competitors such as Optus and Vodaphone etc.??? Overall, my preferred position would be for the commonwealth the buy back to 1/3 of Telstra already sold, because of the public benefit derived from public ownership.

Telstra is in an effective monopoly position, and taxpayers" funds have made the telecommunications giant what it is today. It is not fair to place this public infrastructure into private hands, which have failed to deliver service merely for the purposes of profit and shareholder interests.