[LINK] It is Time for Parliament to Follow the Rest of Australia Online

[Tom Worthington]

On 27/8/20 11:02 am, David Lochrin wrote:

> ... with no audience ... sitting at home in front of their computer...

Each new form of communications which comes along requires different 
skills and provides new opportunities. I suggest it would be good to 
have our politicians spend more time face to face with their 
constituents and use the tech for formal parliamentary sessions.

I am no Olivier, but do I train computer project students and start-up 
teams to work online. This is a different skill to performing in front 
of a live audience, for or a media reporter, or on a live TV broadcast.

> Prime-time ABC news programs alone have an
> audience of around half to three-quarters of a million viewers ...

Is it good for national decision making to have our politicians spend 
hours in the chamber just to get a few seconds on the evening news?


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