[LINK] Friday funny a little early

[steve jenkin]

Kevin Emery (Lists) wrote on 2/8/07 3:45 PM:

Did no-one else catch the irony of a Foreign National in charge of one
of our largest public companies (in fact, part of a Troika) banging on
about the dangers of having Foreign Nationals in charge??

Why aren't the media all over this??
- If he's right, then he's indicted himself and the Three Amigos.
- If he's wrong, then what is he doing in that job?

Or are we so close to being the 51st state, that he and we can't
distinguish between Aus & the USA?

> http://www.industrysearch.com.au/news/viewrecord.aspx?id=27332
>
> 2/08/2007 - There could be national security concerns if the federal
> government allows the Optus-led G9 group of telcos to build a national high
> speed broadband network, a top ranking Telstra executive says.
>
>
>
> Phil Burgess, ....
>   
> "Why would you want somebody outside your country to control
> telecommunications," <snip>
>
> "How could you have the nerve centre of the country not touch on national
> security?
>
> "It goes right to the heart of national security.
>
> <snip>
> Source: AAP NewsWire
>
> Best Regards
>
> Kevin Emery
> Managing Director
> West Australian Networks Pty Ltd,
> WWW: http://www.westnet.net.au
> Po Box 532, HILLARYS 6923 Western Australia
>   
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