[LINK] Helen Coonan and the ACS at fifty paces

[Roger Clarke]

marghanita at ramin.com.au:
>The IT minister could legitimately wonder why they are patron of a 
>group making social welfare policy.

Shame on you Marghanita!  Would you really want the ACS to be 
heartless, and only concerned about lumps of silicon??

Seriously though, the Community Affairs Board has been active on a 
wide range of things that are 'adjacent to', but significantly 
impacted by, computing, for a long time now:
https://www.acs.org.au/about_acs/cbca.htm

(Declaration:  I was chair of the ACS Economic, Legal & Social 
Implications Committee for a decade, so I've got a bit of an interest 
in such things).

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