[LINK] Coonan vs Conroy
Roger Clarke
Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Wed Oct 3 19:38:29 AEST 2007
At 18:10 +1000 3/10/07, Stilgherrian wrote:
>Thanks all for the suggestions and comments for this Friday's breakfast
Sorry I didn't find time to toss any ideas in.
And this is mostly negative, so double-sorry.
> 1. ICT as a critical "enabling" element in our response to climate
>change, which will require lots of distributed access to lots of information
>and the tools to evaluate it.
Unfortunately, they can dive into prepared screeds on 'climate
change', so there won't be any information content in the discussion.
> 2. Protecting children online.
A total waste of space of a question. Not just because we've all
been over it ad nausaeum, but mainly because *they* have, so the
answers will be 100% prepared imagery, no thought required.
> 4. What happened to the Information Economy? Why are all the information
>jobs going off shore to India?
Better!!!
> 6. Why does the government continue to behave like they own Telstra?
> 11. An enforced split of Telstra's retail and infrastructure divisions
How about:
How are you going to force Telstra to pass the national
infrastructure into a separate company without paying mega-billions
in compensation to them?
>I think I'd pull back to a Big Picture question about teh Internet. In 1995,
>Australia was 3rd on the planet in terms of Internet bandwidth and computer
>power per population, now we're not even in the Top 10. What are your
>thoughts on that? Is it important? If so, how should it be addressed? If
>not, why not?
You could seed it with 'not just games and porn', and see if either
of them can even remember who said it. If a week's a long time in
politics, London is out of sight and out of mind:
http://www.uk.embassy.gov.au/lhlh/HCbiog.html
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