<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Look, it's joined-up thinking. You dig up once, lay or replace the fibre or wires, _then_ do any road repair.<br><br>and, because it's properly coordinated in the same department, there will be no more backhoe digger-induced outages.<br><br>Hopefully they'll bring water/sewage/electricity under the same umbrella. This is the sort of long-term planning and careful consideration and handover of responsibilities that makes Australian government great. <div><span><br></span></div><div> </div><div>Lloyd Wood<br>lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk<br>http://sat-net.com/L.Wood<br><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span
style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Damian Guppy <the.damo@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Paul Wallace <paul.wallace@mtgi.com.au> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "<ausnog@lists.ausnog.net>" <ausnog@lists.ausnog.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, 1 July 2013, 15:11<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [AusNOG] Deputy PM,
Anthony Albanese is also the Communications Minister<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv6925957226"><div dir="ltr">Maybe they are just picking up on the car / road / transport metaphors the IT industry is always using it and taking it a little too far?<div><br></div><div style="">--Damian</div><div class="yiv6925957226gmail_extra"><br><br>
<div class="yiv6925957226gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Paul Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:paul.wallace@mtgi.com.au" target="_blank" href="mailto:paul.wallace@mtgi.com.au">paul.wallace@mtgi.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="yiv6925957226gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div lang="EN-US"><div><div class="yiv6925957226MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d;">Yes well it makes perfect sense (see below copy from the SMH) that Albanese take on Roads + Communications in the same office the following makes sense <u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div class="yiv6925957226MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d;">… when you consider that there’s no money left for roads ‘cos it all got spent on the NBN so he won’t have to spend much time thinking about roads.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div class="yiv6925957226MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d;"><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div class="yiv6925957226MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d;">Fair shake of the sauce bottle!<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div class="yiv6925957226MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d;"><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div class="yiv6925957226MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;" lang="EN-AU">Mr Albanese will take on responsibility for the NBN as Minister for Communications and Broadband. He retains his infrastructure and transport portfolio.<br>
<br>Read more: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/rudd-rewards-backers-crean-departs-20130701-2p5zl.html#ixzz2XlYDjN7b"><span style="color:#003399;">http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/rudd-rewards-backers-crean-departs-20130701-2p5zl.html#ixzz2XlYDjN7b</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div class="yiv6925957226MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d;"><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div class="yiv6925957226MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d;">-P</span></div>
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