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

[Rod]

Hmmm,  do you think we should follow the route of the USA, undisputed king of capitalism, and have a second rate, fragmented Telco industry operating with virtual monopolies in various states/areas through the USA?  The customer experience in many large cities in the USA is woeful by our standards. Do we follow the USA down?

 

Our nation stands to reap significant benefits all through society (Health is just one example) and industry by having much faster ubiquitous internet access. Our large telcos don’t have the financial incentive to develop this infrastructure on their own, and their failure to deliver over many many years speaks volumes, and the smaller players do not have the financial muscle to make a dent in our large country. NBN is the way to go. Problem is that politicians and their executive arm (eg ACCC) got in the way of a good solution.

 

Rod

 

 

From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Paul Wallace
Sent: Sunday, 20 September 2015 7:32 PM
To: George Fong <george at lateralplains.com>
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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] The new Minister for Communications is Senator Mitch Fifield

 

Conroy nationalised telecoms.

 

Nationalising industries is what communist countries do.

 

Consequently and subsequently we've seen extensive rationalisation of the players in our industry via M&As ... followed by repeated shrill criticism of those mergers by members of this list.

 

The coalition is now complicit as well .. they originally stated their intentions to wind the nbn down, or to sell it off or similar but then back flipped.

 

A complete disgrace.

 

-P

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On 20 Sep 2015, at 7:21 PM, George Fong <george at lateralplains.com <mailto: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.

Cheers
g.

On Sun, 2015-09-20 at 19:16 +1000, Paul Wallace wrote: 

Unlikely to be worse than Conroy though. 

 

Conroy - the worlds only economist who doesn't need or want a business case before spending $100 billion! 

 

-P 


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On 20 Sep 2015, at 6:26 PM, Paul Wilkins <paulwilkins369 at gmail.com <mailto:paulwilkins369 at gmail.com> > wrote:



Because arts and science are a natural mix.



"In a democracy you get the representation you deserve"....



So what have we done to deserve this?

 

Paul Wilkins 

 

On 20 September 2015 at 16:10, Damian Guppy <the.damo at gmail.com <mailto:the.damo at gmail.com> > wrote: 

The first Turnbull ministry has been announced.  

 

Source: https://twitter.com/SkyNewsAust/status/645476692962738176 

 

Mitch Fifield Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Fifield 

 

He has also picked up the following portfolios: 

 

Minister Assisting The Prime Minister for Digital Government 

Minister for the Arts 

Manager of Government Business in the Senate 

 

--Damian 


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