Michael Sainsbury

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179 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 11 Jul

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7am · Labor’s guilt in the Triple Zero failures · 11 Jul 2026 podcast

And you would think that 18 months after something like that happened, for that not to be in place after 18 months, I think that's a little bit of a shame you and the government

Well, it's certainly going to sharpen up her interest in the portfolio.

Look, people inside the sector have said that she's not as engaged with the sector as the previous minister, who did have a background in telecoms.

Indeed, if you look back to the previous ministers, we had Paul Fletcher for quite some time in the coalition government.

before Michelle Rowland, Mitch Fifield before him and Malcolm Turnbull.

All of those people did have quite a lot of experience or background in either telcos or technology.

Amateur Worlds doesn't have any of that experience.

And telecoms is a very, very complex business.

I mean, as we've talked about just with the mobile network,

Then you've got landline networks, and you've got to run internet services.

There's customer call centres.

There's marketing.

There's Optus and Telstra have a bunch of shops.

So they're vertically integrated businesses with lots of different moving parts, and it requires a very engaged minister and staff and department to make sure that the companies that

looking after telecommunications, doing their jobs properly.

And this incident, and it's such a dreadful thing when, you know, people are dead because infrastructure fails.

But this incident really should make, I think, the government have a very good look at what's happening in telecommunications.

It's always been problematic because we have such a huge country with not too many people.

So it's expensive.

compared to somewhere like Hong Kong or Singapore to provide communications infrastructure in Australia.

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