Question to Senator Kemp regarding the Playing Australia debacle Question Time, Senate, Thursday 30 October 2003. Arts: Playing Australia Senator LUNDY (2.22 p.m.)-My question is to Senator Kemp, Minister for the Arts and Sport. My question is about the latest round of funding for Playing Australia, the regional touring program for quality performing arts companies. [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2003
Good riddance to a bad minister: Tuckey
Wilson Tuckey has been dumped as Minister for Territories, after using the ACT as his political plaything during his tenure. As Minister, he took Canberra bashing to a new level. His interference in ACT affairs has been both unwelcome and inappropriately partisan and includes the following debacles; Politicisation of the National Capital Authority resulting in [...]
Telstra still deploying broadband-blocking technology
Telstra has admitted misleading a Senate Committee over its use of line-splitting technology which prevents hundreds of thousands of Australians from accessing a high speed internet service. In August 7, Telstra gave misleading evidence to a Senate Committee in response to a direct question I asked, claiming that it was no longer deploying inferior line-splitting [...]
No sale for Telstra
Here is my speech in Parliament opposing the Howard Governments legislation to sell the rest of Telstra. There was also a Senate Inquiry into this Bill: Report on the Provisions of the Telstra (Transition to Full Private Ownership) Bill 2003 – (PDF format) – Tabled 27 October 2003 – Submissions Senator LUNDY (Australian Capital Territory) [...]
Red alert for new media industry
Trade Minister Mark Vaile made it clear this morning that he is willing to put the future of Australia’s cultural industries in the hands of the United States through the AUSFTA. The concessions flagged by the Howard Government regarding new media and new types of digital media represent the surrendering of future Australian local content [...]
National Museum chases funds to politicise exhibitions
The latest chapter in the politicisation of the National Museum by the Howard Government has unfolded, with an extra $45 million sought to rebuild the under-funded museum according to Howard’s white-washed view of Australian cultural history. Given the Museum was deliberately starved of funds by the Howard Government, it is offensive that the Museum Board [...]
Regional access to the arts decimated
The Howard Government is responsible for hundreds of thousands of regional people having their access to the arts decimated. As a result of the latest round of Playing Australia Grants, only 13 funding applications for shows to tour to all areas in Australia were funded, as opposed to 26 in the same round last year. [...]
Howard Government can’t remain silent on cover-up of “a serious breach of IT security”
Crawling through rubbish tips looking for confidential Government files is not a national security strategy, it is a national disgrace. But that apparently was the situation when information from the Prime Minister’s own department was ‘disposed of as rubbish’. The Howard Government has a lot to answer for, and is yet to provide an explanation. [...]
Playing Australia – performance arts venues affected by Howard
Here is the list of Performing Arts venues and Locations that were negatively impacted upon as a result of the Howard Government’s decisions on the last round of Playing Australia funding. The table shows the number of applications and the number that were successful. Media Releases: 30 October 2003 – Minister must fix regional performing [...]
More Howard Government Security Lapses
The Howard Government’s inadequate approach to security was again exposed today when a Parliamentary inquiry heard that it has consistently failed to prevent the disappearance and theft of Commonwealth Government computers. While the Howard Government pretends it is tough on security, it has been negligent on the home front, failing to cover off the most [...]
