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Successive Governments' involvement in telecommunications over the last couple of decades have been nothing short of disastrous. Australia is now the most over-regulated telecommunications market on earth, and all our politicians ever do is talk about even more regulations. Australia doesn't need telecommunications regulation, it needs competition regulation. Now that Telstra is a private company just like any other private company, the telecommunications regulatory structure which was designed to transition from PMG/Telecom to a competitive marketplace should be grandfathered, and the powers of the ACCC to regulate monopolization should be strengthened while telco-specific communications regulation is backed-off. That would have the side benefit of unifying our regulations with other nations who have been far more successful at harnessing the Internet than Australia has.