[AusNOG] Malcolm Turnbull to Comms role

[Darren Moss]

What are you talking about, Senator Conroy is a communications expert with extensive experience on iPhone and Fibre Optic cable.


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From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Grahame Lynch
Sent: Thursday, 16 September 2010 10:01 PM
To: James Cole
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Malcolm Turnbull to Comms role


Totally.. part of the idea of a politician as a community representative is to protect us from special interests as much as advocate them...

On 16 September 2010 18:51, James Cole <cole at sircole.net<mailto:cole at sircole.net>> wrote:
Funny you should say that because from what I've learnt if a politician knows all about one subject they tend to make the politicians role about something completely different. Idea is that a politician who is a network engineer would be too biased to properly fulfill the role of a communications minister..


On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Mark Smith <nanog at 85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org<mailto:nanog at 85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>> wrote:
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:46:31 +1000
"Sean K. Finn" <sean.finn at ozservers.com.au<mailto:sean.finn at ozservers.com.au>> wrote:

> Did anyone invite communications minister Conroy to attend AusNOG..
>
> We should invite Malcom Turnbull or other shadow minister as well as
> current Comms minister in advance for next year as this is a fairly
> relevant event, a refusal to show up or snub AusNOG would be
> considered very very bad form, with the opportunity for the shadow
> minister to cease on a now show to publicly display non interaction
> between industry and govt.
>

It'd probably be easier to turn a network engineer into a politician
than the other way around ... politicians aren't going to be able to
make value judgements on mechanisms, and conversely sometimes choose
not to listen to the limitations of the mechanisms (URL
filtering/recordig at NBN speeds and coverage?) if it doesn't suit their
policies.

Politicians should stick to policy, because that's their job.

> And if he does show perhaps some of us can educate the ministers,
> straight from the horses mouth.
>
> S
>
> On 15/09/2010, at 7:15 AM, "Noel Butler" <noel.butler at ausics.net<mailto:noel.butler at ausics.net>> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 06:50 +1000, Steve Baxter wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I do not think you will find many who thought Tony Smith was the best
> >> communications shadow available.
> >>
> >
> > *nod*
> >
> > Nick Minchin would have walked all over Conartist , err I mean,
> > Conroy...
> >
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