[AusNOG] News: Minister Conroy contemplating Government-Funded undersea cable?

[Damian Guppy]

Hate to burst your bubble but federal politics are based on 3 year terms with senators getting an automatic 2 terms when elected. Conroy is a senator and got re-elected last election so he has a 6 year term :( the only reprieve is if labor loses but in that case we will probably lose the nbn as well. 

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On 28/09/2012, at 2:11 PM, Peter Tiggerdine <ptiggerdine at gmail.com> wrote:

> Fantastic.
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> The NBN is giving Conroy enough rope to hang himself with. Keep the arrogance up Mr Conroy I have 3 words for you.
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> four year term.
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> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Sean K. Finn <sean.finn at ozservers.com.au> wrote:
> http://www.itnews.com.au/News/317202,conroy-mulls-government-funded-subsea-fibre-link.aspx
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> Threatens 'unfettered power' to drive down prices.
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> Communications minister Stephen Conroy has threatened to fund a new submarine link between Australia and the US out of the National Broadband Network budget if international pricing does not fall to reasonable levels.
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> Discuss!
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