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

[Alex Samad - Yieldbroker]

Its turning rather ot, but

I think it has more to do with the calibre of politicians we have now. They are a lot more self focused.

>From what we can see from ICAC, the last government turned into a bit of a pigs at a trough fest.

A


> -----Original Message-----
> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of
> Matt Palmer
> Sent: Wednesday, 10 September 2014 6:12 PM
> To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Simon Hackett's slide deck from AusNOG 2014 with
> added audio
> 
> 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
> 
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