I am watching the press conference of independent MPs Tony Windsor and Rob Oakshott. Tony Windsor has cited the importance of the Federal Labor commitment to the National Broadband Network to his decision to support a Gillard Labor Government. Rob Oakshott is also supporting a Gillard Labor Government.
I am proud to be part of a Government that made this commitment to the NBN. The NBN is correctly recognised as the social and economic infrastructure of the 21st century and the extent of its massive potential for this country is clear. Each day brings new ideas and prospects, particularly for economically and geographically isolated areas.
It will deliver health and other essential services. It will transform education. It will bring a significant boost to our effort to lighten our carbon footprint. It will enhance business and commerce. It will improve the opportunities for participation in our vibrant democracy. It will facilitate open, transparent and accountable government.
I look forward to working hard in this next term of a federal Labor government.
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That’s nice.
So when is your party going to dump Mandatory ISP-Level Censorship and Mandatory Data Retention?
Haha! Nik, surely you jest!
Yet another announcement made by Kate/Labor that is overshadowed by the looming monstrosity that is their censorship/surveillance plans.
The internet filter is opposed by the Greens and the Coalition, thus it can’t make it through the Senate and into law.
That means the filter is dead for all intents and purposes.
Yes the NBN is good and necessary for Australia, and it is good to see you still on board Kate. But surely Labor realises that many of us voted for others because of the filter. Me, for example, and just about everyone I know. Why then is Gillard saying she will stick with all her election policies when the filter is so obviously flawed and dangerous?
I’m worried we’ll get technologically leapfrogged. We’ll spend 50bil on a fibre network then have to maintain it for the next 100 years like the copper network. Countries like India and China will leapfrog and just go wireless.
What a choice, to vote either for the NBN or against the filter. I was prepared to sacrifice the NBN so that the filter would die. And now … pffft.. what a waste of a vote. That idiot Conroy … arrghghg!
The NBN is good, but I likewise voted against Labor due to its continued support for the online filtering system. Since this was in the seat of Solomon, it helped unseat the Labor incumbent.
Even though the internet monitoring systems won’t make it through the senate due to its current configuration, it is still Labor policy, and it looks like Conroy will still be there. Consequently I, and many others, will have to continue to vote against Labor.
When is the NBN due to roll out in Dunlop ACT?
What’s the point of an atheist Prime Minister who’s still intending to impose a fundamentalist Christian internet filter? Is she also still planning to fill our secular schools with Christian chaplains who have no training in evidence-based counselling?
Clearly the ACL didn’t deliver her back into government so she owes them nothing.