"a public payphone - must be in my "backyard".

Terry McCrann - theaustralian.news.com.au: Phone box hysteria has ridiculous ring to it

Whether Telstra is fully privatised or not, it's in everyone's interest that it operates efficiently
February 25, 2006
"The storm in the T-box was both instructive and depressing in equal measure. The hysterical reaction in Canberra does not bode well for coming decisions on regulation of media and telephony.
The broader hysterical reaction was a bizarre form of reverse NIMBY-ism. Rather than not in my backyard, I demand that it - a public payphone - must be in my "backyard".

So Telstra is going to cut 5000 of 32,000 payphones, so everyone sees "their" phone as one of the 5000. Not one of the 27,000 that will remain. Remaining, almost certainly, because of this hysterical reaction, long past their time due."