John Linton
......are influenced by 'lobbyists' whose objectives are solely based on their own monetary well being.
A couple of Sundays ago I attended a function on the Gold Coast. Being the polite sort of person I am I got that at the requested time which
required me to eat a smorgasbord lunch at a table occupied other people I didn't know - which I did in silence for the first thirty minutes or so
until 'accosted' by someone who introduced himself to me. We then briefly chatted about various things during which I made some of my
opinions on the Krudd 'NBN2'. Somehow this caused a couple of other people at the table to make a couple of fatuous comments. Those people
turned out to be a representative of this organisation:
http://www.ccc.asn.au
(Forman?) and the person whose ear he had been pouring a stream of non-stop nonsense into for the previous time I had been at the table who turned out to be a WA senator for the Green Party - Scott (Robert?) Ludlam. I had formed the view that the CCC person and the Senator had demonstrated n their interlocution a complete lack of knowledge of almost every aspect of Australian telecommunication it would be possible to have and for the Senator on the one hand to be involved in making decisions on the future of Australia's communications infrastructure based on the
information being supplied by an equally ill-informed lackey of two foreign carriers (or is it three) on the other hand succinctly put the
concept of unskilled and uneducated 'parliamentarians' making decisions on subjects completely beyond their comprehension and knowledge in
perspective.
So I read this piece of nonsense when it was referred to me:
In a statement, the body representing the non-dominant carriers in Australia, said Telstra’s announcement translated into a demand that
taxpayers spend billions to bail the company out of the "hole it has dug for itself"
I looked up the web address cited above but couldn't find a list of companies that this grandiloquently (but as far as I can tell) inaccurately named
organisation consists. At the brief exchange of 'views' the CCC representative said, unless I misunderstood, that neither Optus nor TPG
were represented by him leaving only AAPT and iPrimus (and Vodafone) as his paymasters with the names of Internode and iinet included to
obfuscate the fact that the 'CCC' is simply lobbying on behalf of Exetel's foreign competitors. I could have this all wrong but the previous and subsequent remarks made by the CCC representative certainly gave the impression that his paymasters
were foreign and that he didn't know very much about communications but he had some access to Australian federal politicians.
If my brief observations were at all accurate a couple of Sundays ago then it is no wonder that Australia constantly buys military hardware at the highest possible prices that is totally unsuited to its stated purposes and that so many Australian politicians (from local councillors to Prime Ministers) lot wealthier than they entered in to them. That statement cited above (in red) contains two clearly untrue assertions (the "body" doesn't
represent the "non dominant carriers" and Telstra hasn't dug any hole) a ridiculous assertion (no tax payer dollars are involved only 'NBNCo' dollars) and a commercial slander (Telstra doesn't have to sell anything and 'NBNCo' doesn't have to buy anything so no scenario exists where any money has to change hands unless both parties are happy to do so).
I can only wonder at the depth of dishonesty of a person who can lie so many times in 35 words and make (I'm not exactly sure of the syntax separation) either four or five calumnies or worse. How dishonest do you actually have to be to be able to cram so much
untruth into so few words? So if this single sentence (and the rest are similarly constructed) represents the level of knowledge and the level of truthfulness of Canberra lobbyists then there appears to be an open and shut case to ban these sorts of people from spreading their poison
forthwith.
Or is it that to remove the bribe money from the trough would inconvenience the politicians and their staff members who meet with them?