[AusNOG] The new Minister for Communications is Senator Mitch Fifield

[Paul Wilkins]

George,
With respect, this is incorrect. Conroy coopted the push for infrastructure
to enrich the unions. I think I can put the record straight.

In 2001 Lindsay Tanner (Labor Shadow Comms Minister) was very much across
the need for national internet infrastructure. Labor strategy was well
advanced.

Conroy inherited existing strategy with the portfolio in 2004, and used the
unions to push the Labor right for a national fibre network that Labor
would have the taxpayer pay for.

The rest is history.


Kind regards

Paul Wilkins

On 20 September 2015 at 19:20, George Fong <george at lateralplains.com> wrote:

> Perspective. There would have been no NBN without Conroy or Lundy before
> him.  We had nothing and no hope before that.
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> Cheers
> g.
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> On Sun, 2015-09-20 at 19:16 +1000, Paul Wallace wrote:
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> Unlikely to be worse than Conroy though.
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> Conroy - the worlds only economist who doesn't need or want a business
> case before spending $100 billion!
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> -P
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On 20 Sep 2015, at 6:26 PM, Paul Wilkins <paulwilkins369 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Because arts and science are a natural mix.
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> "In a democracy you get the representation you deserve"....
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> So what have we done to deserve this?
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> Paul Wilkins
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> On 20 September 2015 at 16:10, Damian Guppy <the.damo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The first Turnbull ministry has been announced.
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> Source: https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/645476692962738176
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> Mitch Fifield Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Fifield
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> He has also picked up the following portfolios:
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> Minister Assisting The Prime Minister for Digital Government
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> Minister for the Arts
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> Manager of Government Business in the Senate
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> --Damian
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