To the Honourable the Speaker and the Members of the House of Representatives assembled in Parliament:

The petition of certain citizens of Australia draws the attention of the House to our concern that:

the Howard-Anderson government plans to fully privatise the Australian people's 50.1 percent share of Telstra as stated in the government's own 2001 Budget papers;

a fully privatised Telstra will focus on profits not people; and

services will suffer under a fully privatised Telstra, particularly in outer metropolitan, rural and regional Australia.

Your petitioners therefore ask the House to oppose the Howard-Anderson government's plans to fully privatise Telstra.