<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 23/06/2010, at 9:30 PM, Grahame Lynch wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>So the next obvious question: what does this mean for policies such as the filter and the NBN?</div></blockquote><div><br></div>A lot of that will be decided by whether the leadership roll affects the </div><div>outcome of the next election.</div><div><br></div><div>If I was in charge, I'd be creating a new front-bench position, "Minister</div><div>for the National Broadband Network," to give the NBN 100% focus</div><div>with no distractions.</div><div><br></div><div>No prizes for guessing that I'd dump ISP censorship. Not just quietly</div><div>throwing it down the memory hole, but unequivocally stating that it'll</div><div>never come back to ensure that there'll be political pain involved in</div><div>resurrecting it later.</div><div><br></div><div>The remaining bits of DBCDE these days come down to spectrum </div><div>licensing, stirring up public fear about the internet, and regulating </div><div>Kyle Sandilands. Should be a reasonably simple task for a junior</div><div>Minister :-)</div><div><br></div><div> - mark</div><div><br></div><div>
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