PM Announces Senator Alston as Minister for Information Economy

[Tom Worthington]

At 02:58 PM 17/09/97 -0700, Jan Whitaker wrote:

>Tom said [asked actually]:
>
>>Then why does the PM breech his own government's web page guidelines ...
>
>... some other area unknown to the outsourced webpage developer who most
>likely comes from a marketing group with super graphic artists who could
>give a stuff about guidelines...

Yes, but really smart politicians would have someone to review the stuff
before it goes out.

>...My second question is: how do we begin to change that?  

By making good 'net practice a political must. Just get a TV current affairs
program to have a photogenic blind little girl say "Minister, why don't you
want to tell me, don't I count too?", A farmer to say: "This Minister
doesn't care about the bush, it'id cost me a fortune to wait for all this
picture c**p to come down the rusty bit of fencing wire they call a phone
line around here. All I want to know is what the f**ing facts are, this
thing has more photos than a philippino bride catalog", A lawyer to say: "My
clients are taking action under section ??? of the anti-discrimination act".


Tom Worthington <tomw@acslink.net.au> President, Australian Computer Society,
GPO Box 446, Canberra ACT 2601 http://www.acslink.net.au/~tomw
Fax: +61 2 62496419
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