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  • Shareholders OK Telstra exec pay

    Telstra shareholders have unequivocally voted in favour of the remuneration packages currently awarded to its top executives.

  • Thodey extends olive branch to unions

    New Telstra chief executive David Thodey today wrote to Telstra employees and unions pledging to end the lengthy stand-off between management and staff by negotiating a new enterprise agreement in "good faith".

  • Telstra launches new blogging site

    Putting the troubled history of its nowwearetalking website behind it, Telstra has re-launched its efforts to communicate with customers and stakeholders online, focused on a new blogging site dubbed "Telstra Exchange".

  • Telstra shareholders fear break up: Video

    What do Telstra shareholders think of the telco's new CEO David Thodey? And would they support the government's plan to separate Telstra? ZDNet.com.au asked shareholders these questions at the company's annual general meeting this week.

  • Conroy praises Telstra diplomacy

    Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy yesterday said a meeting with Telstra chief David Thodey had given him hope that the telco was open to a "meaningful dialogue" as the government wades through its industry regulatory reform submissions.

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    Bluff called, can Conroy still tame Telstra?

    How well Stephen Conroy handles Telstra's challenge will determine whether we're hurtling towards a great new era in telecommunications, or fated to even more years stuck in the grip of Telstra's well-entrenched market position.

  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    Can the Telco Reform Act be win-win?

    In the second of our two programs looking at the Senate Inquiry into the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment Bill, we hear from shareholders, bureaucrats and industry groups.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Ash Wednesday for Telstra's shareholders

    Shareholders got a rude awakening this week as Stephen Conroy made good on industry calls to break up Telstra. Some argue the government has been duplicitous and should be held to account, but those who sit tight may find the new Telstra offers a far better value proposition with better long-term opportunities.

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  • Trujillo was a costly mistake for Telstra

    We can now conclude that Telstra went backwards during the Trujillo era, and that the board's decision in June 2005 to sack Ziggy Switkowski and install a team of expensive Americans to run the company was a mistake.

  • Telstra should plan for separation

    If Telstra is serious about engaging with the Federal Government over the National Broadband Network it should immediately start the work needed to break itself in two.

  • Mike Quigley: The background check

    Father, brother, cancer survivor, highly intelligent engineer and leader of the "Australian mafia" group of executives who battled their way to the top of global telco supplier Alcatel-Lucent. We present Mike Quigley, executive chairman of the National Broadband Network Company.

  • David Moffatt will be Telstra CEO

    There is no single candidate right now better suited to succeed Sol Trujillo as Telstra chief executive than the telco's current consumer marketing and channels chief David Moffatt.

  • Striving for mediocrity

    Iif the latest NBN scenario planning is right, David Thodey will have to accept that even an optimal outcome for both Telstra and the government will not deliver dramatic returns for Telstra's one million shareholders.

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  • Telstra shareholders fear break up

    What do Telstra shareholders think of the telco's new CEO David Thodey? And would they support the government's plan to separate Telstra? ZDNet.com.au asked shareholders these questions at the company's annual general meeting this week.

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