[LINK] Fwd: Just in: Conroy going ahead with censorship

[Tom Koltai]

Sorry Stephen, have to disagree.

Even Post Grads have but one course to influence govenrment.
You either ring the fellow in Government and say "Do ya remember when we
coulda hazed you and we didn't - well you owe me one - could you please
bin that legislative ammendment - there's a good chap."

Government are influenced by highly paid lobbyists. Unless they receive
a contrary feedback from the public, the lobbyists version wins the day.

I believe that each facsimile or letter is counted as ten persons.

So unless you have the Right Honourables home number or cell number, the
only way to get through is to campaign as hard as the lobbyists.

They have money - we have numbers.

Otherwise how will Government know we won't vote for them next time?


Tom


> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Stephen Wilson
> Sent: Thursday, 17 December 2009 1:32 PM
> To: Link list
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Fwd: Just in: Conroy going ahead with censorship
> 
> 
> 
> Sorry but this is cynical, undergraduate nonsense. 
> 
> If there is any hope at all of engaging the government on the 
> substantive issues (like freedom of speech, or efficacy or whatever) 
> then what good does it do to sabotage public servants' time?  How 
> seriously do you want to be taken?
> 
> Stephen Wilson
> Lockstep
> www.lockstep.com.au
> 
> 
> 
> Stilgherrian wrote:
> > On 16/12/2009, at 9:27 PM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> >   
> >>> 
> <http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/GreatFirewallOfAustralia?dc=
974,31
>>> 107,1
>>>       
>>>> http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/GreatFirewallOfAustralia
>>>>         
>> What's interesting about this is it can be a fax or email. Use fax. 
>> It clogs up their system.
>>     
>
> However if the fax is just a standard message it'll get a re-written
> standard response.
>
> Yesterday Crikey's Bernard Keane wrote an excellent piece explaining
> how to ensure your letter or fax consumes the most bureaucratic  
> resources -- a denial of service attack on the public service, if you

> like.
>
> http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/16/dont-waste-your-time-waste-theirs-
> a-guide-to-writing-to-ministers/
> or, for people with dumb email clients
> http://is.gd/5qBDt
>
> Stil
>
>
>   

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