[AusNOG] Simon Hackett's slide deck from AusNOG 2014 with added audio

[Matt Palmer]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 05:07:22PM +1000, Mike Everest wrote:
> > I agree entirely.  The fault with Labor's FTTP model wasn't with the
> > technology, it was with the implementation processes.
> 
> True as that sure is, I wonder how likely it is that implementation will
> be improved under the new regime?  After all, it's the same company, the
> same bureaucratic behemoth, and the same reels of red tape.  I can't
> imagine how implementation processes will change much :-/

Well, NSW's suburban passenger rail operator was trying to do electronic
ticketing for, what, 15 years, under successive Labour governments, and
never got anywhere.  Had a coalition state government for, what, 3 years
now?  And I haven't used a paper ticket in nearly six months.

My view of the situation is that we've got one party that's willing to
invest in infrastructure, but couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery (they
don't have a problem in brothels, though -- at least as long as they've got
a union credit card handy), while the other side is pretty good at
delivering projects, but the only projects they run are sell-offs of
infrastructure.  Pity we can't have a party that's willing to invest *and*
can actually deliver something.

- Matt