John Linton .......you only have to go back less than three years for Labor's last 40 obvious total lies - more than one broken major election promise for each month by that most incompetent and dishonest of governments Australia has ever been saddled with.
I realise that, for the most part, the Australian electorate in general and Labor voters in particular are uneducated buffoons with so little intelligence they wear loafers as they can't tie shoe laces but - give me a break - this time round Gillard via her minder's scripts are breaking all bounds in their lying stupidity. I will leave the general nonsense and simply point out the new levels of lying attached to the one aspect of political life I do know something about - Australian communications.
Firstly let me offer the opinion that the so called "Australian Communications Media" appears to be run by teenagers with as little knowledge of the subject they proclaim themselves to be "specialists" in as they have of why they slur their words after their third beer which they appear to drink before writing on their "specialist" subject. I read this arrant piece of juvenile nonsense earlier this morning:
http://www.itwire.com/it-policy-news/regulation/40835-could-tony-abbott-unscramble-the-nbn-egg
and was totally sickened at the crass lying (see if you can spot a single reference to support any claim in it) perpetrated by any sort of infantile media hack that got past what passes for an equally infantile editor and actually sullied my screen with its uncredentialed lying and insulting attempt to 'persuade' me that such electronic puke could be taken seriously with its ridiculous claims:
Some facts about the 'NBN2' that are not only not mentioned in this (and similarly stupid pieces appearing from Sussex Street via the mouths of the Screech Owl and Stupid Stephen) need to be re-stated:
1) The 'NBN2' was not "a carefully considered piece of infrastructure reform" at all. It was a stupid piece of political nonsense devised over 48 hours in a few plane trips as a panicky attempted cover up for the just about to be fiasco of the announcement that the 'NBN1' had to be canned because it was even more stupid than this hastily devised 'NBN2' that was announced to replace it.
2) No person in any government department (such as Treasury or Communications) and no member of the Labor Party (including the Screech Owl) was consulted and the "carefully considered major infrastructure reform" was a politically drafted (800 word press release) which was the first anyone in Australia but Stupid Steven and Krudd heard about it. It was brought in to being by two panicked and inexperienced politicians attempting to cover up their about to be exposed stupidity and major lying promise prior to the previous election.
3) No costing or logistical analysis was done and has still not be done to this day. No-one knows what an 'NBN2' will cost or how it is a better option than anything else that could be put in place and certainly no attempt at any analysis of what would be best for Australia (as a whole) or all of the very, very different constituent parts of Australia was ever considered nor is planned to be considered.
4) Sussex Street, via the Screech Owl, is delivering the mantra that "Attempting to stop the 'NBN2' is like opposing building railroads or major highways in the 1800s"...which surely not even a Labor voter would even give passing acceptance to - the attempted analogy is totally inapplicable. In 1870 here was no alternative to an improvement in the roads between the various towns/cities and no alternative to railroads to move freight - and, further, a current service (the PSTN/ISDN) didn't have to be ripped up and thrown away to make people use rods and railroads. The alternatives to the 'NBN2" are many and varied, cost the taxpayer nothing and preserve ongoing competition.
5) Beazely, Conroy et alia, a group of people who collectively know less about communications than probably any other subject in the universe, are repeating the other Sussex Street analogy about the inability to turn omelettes back in to eggs....a particularly stupid analogy and one that has even less applicability than the "opposing the building of railroads" stupidity. NOTHING has been done to make the 'NBN2' a reality yet that couldn't be undone in a stroke of a pen. To cancel the whole fiasco on August 22nd would cost less than a billion dollars (probably far less but I wouldn't know) and it would save Australian tax payers something like 50 to 100 times that (no-one could possibly know what this insane piece of political chicanery could eventually cost.
So, for the record, there is no time frame to build the network (a few areas MAY be connected in the second half of 2011) and thers is still no costing associated with the 'NBN2' and no justification for spending one cent of tax payer money on it and there is ABSOLUTLY NO reason for a government to get involved in such a commercial venture and ABSOLUTELY no reason to continue with it beyond August 22nd.
I am not alone in my views:
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/pity-the-pm-didnt-hold-broadband-to-the-light-then-oppose-it-20100801-111c5.html?autostart=0
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