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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I'll top-post only to point out that
I've interspersed comments below...<br>
On 16/03/2015 12:18 PM, Eric Pinkerton wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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of the criticisms levelled at the Comms Alliance is that
they (or perhaps the Gov’t spin) seems to claim it is
representative of the industry as a whole. </span></p>
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Yes. However thats not an unreasonable view, given the Government
considers they are representative of the industry as a whole,
largely on account of there being no other peak industry body left.<br>
Apart from Comms Alliance, which other industry representative body
do you look to to represent your interests?<br>
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my cynical but, I can’t help but feel that using this list
and giving CEO’s roughly ½ a day to engage, affords the
Coms Alliance the ability to state that for the record they
have remedied this and have now consulted the industry at
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I understand some may see it that way. However, I reached out to
John when I heard about this letter, and asked him if it could be
circulated wider. John didn't approach me to distribute it, I asked
- and he agreed - over the weekend. He didn't need to.<br>
I understand the timing is short. If its any consolation, this
letter started within CA only midway through last week when somebody
heard they might try to introduce the bill for debate tomorrow or
Wednesday - so it has to be sent today in case they are debating it
tomorrow. Thats the reason for the unreasonably short deadline.<br>
I could have sat on my hands, and/or John could have formed a view
that it was too late to bring in more people, and we wouldn't be
having this discussion - but we didn't. I think this is the better
outcome, understand if others don't.<br>
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will leave it up to the CEO’s et al on this list to
determine whether this opportunity really feels like a fair
dinkum effort to engage them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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I find this entire process to be a red herring because it is
not the technicalities of collection that I find
problematic, but rather the opaque and broken process that
governs access to this data which, has never even on the
table for discussion.
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I'm sure the PJCIS would have liked to hear how processes for access
to the data can be improved, as would your local MP. In my view it
was on the table for discussion, courtesy of the reduction in the
number of agencies and the purpose they can use that is permitted to
request data in the first place, which is part of the amendments.<br>
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we busy ourselves making bullets, and they might let us know
who they are going to sell them to sometime next
year…..perhaps.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Paul.<br>
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