POAAL meets with Minister for Communications

March 9, 2012

[caption id="attachment_5348" align="aligncenter" width="398" caption="POAAL CEO Ian Kerr with Minister for Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy"]

[/caption]This afternoon POAAL representatives met with Senator Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.We raised a number of issues with the Minster, including:

Composition of the Australia Post Board, and the importance of industry experience at the governance level;
The sale of Post Logistics and the impact on Licensees;
The growth in parcel volumes, especially inbound international parcels;
Prices surveillance of business mail; and
OH&S obligations.

POAAL meets regularly with the Minister face-to-face - it gives us a great opportunity to press the case for our members' interests at the highest level. We also stay in frequent contact with his advisors.