[AusNOG] The new Minister for Communications is Senator Mitch Fifield

[George Fong]

So how do we get good and equal comms and infrastructure to
regional/rural/remote? Surely about the economy? And Health/education
etc etc? Conroy's from the Labor Right, not the left. 

As a regionally based techo and ISP I am both curious and confused by
your comments :-) 

Cheers
g.



On Sun, 2015-09-20 at 19:32 +1000, Paul Wallace wrote:
> Conroy nationalised telecoms.
> 
> 
> Nationalising industries is what communist countries do.
> 
> 
> Consequently and subsequently we've seen extensive rationalisation of
> the players in our industry via M&As ... followed by repeated shrill
> criticism of those mergers by members of this list.
> 
> 
> The coalition is now complicit as well .. they originally stated their
> intentions to wind the nbn down, or to sell it off or similar but then
> back flipped.
> 
> 
> A complete disgrace.
> 
> 
> -P
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 20 Sep 2015, at 7:21 PM, George Fong <george at lateralplains.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Perspective. There would have been no NBN without Conroy or Lundy
> > before him.  We had nothing and no hope before that.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > g.
> > 
> > On Sun, 2015-09-20 at 19:16 +1000, Paul Wallace wrote: 
> > 
> > > Unlikely to be worse than Conroy though.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Conroy - the worlds only economist who doesn't need or want a
> > > business case before spending $100 billion!
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -P
> > > 
> > > Sent from my iPhone
> > > 
> > > On 20 Sep 2015, at 6:26 PM, Paul Wilkins
> > > <paulwilkins369 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > Because arts and science are a natural mix.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > "In a democracy you get the representation you deserve"....
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > So what have we done to deserve this?
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Paul Wilkins 
> > > > 
> > > > On 20 September 2015 at 16:10, Damian Guppy <the.damo at gmail.com>
> > > > wrote: 
> > > > 
> > > >         The first Turnbull ministry has been announced.  
> > > >         
> > > >         
> > > >         Source: https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/645476692962738176 
> > > >         
> > > >         
> > > >         Mitch Fifield
> > > >         Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Fifield 
> > > >         
> > > >         
> > > >         He has also picked up the following portfolios: 
> > > >         
> > > >         
> > > >         Minister Assisting The Prime Minister for Digital
> > > >         Government 
> > > >         Minister for the Arts 
> > > >         Manager of Government Business in the Senate 
> > > >         
> > > >         
> > > >         --Damian 
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