That's fine for IT demons, (maybe - not too many people are rapt with 'his' NBN), but there are many things he doesn't 'get': many conservatives voters loathe him, will not vote Liberal while he is PM, and will not forgive him for ousting a first-term PM as per Labor. He doesn't listen to anyone, and holds most people in contempt. He is a poor communicator and boring wind bag. Bishop is no asset, twisting, turning, smirking and simpering up at him on the night of the coup - isn't he wonderful, and look at me; I'm not really a nasty middle-aged woman: I'm really a young, cute girl, and I dress accordingly. Bah! Between them they will lay the path for a Labor victory.

"he gets it" Oh really! Turn Bull is the "genius" that wanted to give us "fiber to the node" The US has been using Optic fiber for more than 15 years and any body that has used an Australian issued card will know how effective Optic fiber is even with gas (petrol) pumps, back in 2000 I traveled through 34 US States and my card was not rejected at any time, on my return to Australia my card was rejected on the second time I tried to use it, copper oxidizes the "green disease" which causes failures at connections, Optic fiber does not have that problem, Turnbull's suggestion, "copper from the node" is like buying a Rolls Royce and putting second hand bald tires on it!

This article is a shrewd piece of corporate positioning, written by a corporate man - to lead Turnbull by the nose in directions favouring the corporate man's corporation.

OLO punters will be pleased to hear that:

"FTTP" means Fibre to the Premises - which often means houses in areas already well served by broadband wireless or wireline Internet delivery.

FTTP will not be supplied to White People in genuinely remote areas eg. isolated homesteads needing online medical services.

Homesteads don't generate many votes and their votes go to the National Party anyway.

Pete
Formerly of the Department of Communications

ttbn, what do you think those conservative voters are going to do come the next election? I doubt they'll just scrawl "Turnbull sux!" on the ballot paper. More likely they'll vote for someone else. But after they've allocated their preferences to Bobcats, Puppies, X-Men etc, they're left with the choice of whether to put the Libs above or below Labor. Do they really think Shorten's preferable to Turnbull?

After the ALP established the roll-out of their FTTP NBN (including negotiating the establishment of the NBN away from Telstra), they got rolled out of govt.

Then Turnbull, at the behest of the LNP (+/- others), set out to re-set things and roll it out as the mixed-mode delivery model (as Al Blake says - "against the advice of many in the ICT industry").

And note Mr Blake also wrote "he was following the party line; there was always uncertainty as to how strongly Turnbull personally supported that approach, and his elevation to the PM spot may allow for an NBN recalibration."

Hopefully. The nation's businesses and citizens would benefit collectively from FTTP.

The new internet virus Malware Turncoat has not yet entered punters servers.

With luck, nbn will get (a) an almighty kick in the pants due to their poor performance in the Senate enquiry, (b) more and better support from a non-trogodyte PM's office and (c) a few months off the front pages of our newspapers, both dead-tree and electronic variety.

I said "with luck" because they will need it. Unless management wake up the a few truths, government policy re nbn is both rational and consistent and they spend more time doing their jobs better and less time covering their corporate backsides, Australia's electronic future will be bleak indeed.

The article and comments are, at best, irrelevant to the impending new reality. Without taking into account the transformation of the global economic and political system they sow more confusion and disillusionment. Turnbull and every LNP member who has spoken in the last 24 hours are dedicated to the free trade agenda.. Australia is to secure deregulation of the labour market via the China FTA, and TISA will make this deregulation global. With sovereign control lost , who “gets IT”? -and Unprincipled Shorten doesn't have a clue.

Hoity Toity Leslie

Your comments are, at best, irrelevant ravings.

Your metadata (something Malcolm defined so well) is not worth retaining. http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/malcolm-turnbull-lists-ways-to-avoid-having-your-metadata-collected/story-fnjwnfzw-1227279240081

Mine is :)

Poida

Aidan,

I don't know what other people will do or what they think but, as I've said several times, I would not vote Liberal with Abbott, and even more so with Turnbull. I don't have to tell you that I would never vote Labor, so it's informal for me. At least my conscience will be clear, and if people go for Labor, so bet it.

Informal votes are used by those not intelligent enough to understand policy differences, and by those who don't give a damn about their country.

I feel a new beginning is coming for Australia, with such a positive thinking, well spoken, new PM. Welcome Malcolm!

I agree with Al Blake that "Australia's new PM 'gets IT'" (Online Opinion, 16 September 2015). On Monday night I was at an event on digital copyright at Parliament House. Mr. Turnbull was not there (he was busy getting elected nearby), but would have been at home in this forum.

The Digital Transformation Office (DTO) is an interesting experiment, but it is a bit early to see how it goes. My preference would have been for DTO to be in the Department of Finance which has more experience working with other departments on practical implementation of IT.

The current government's mixed-mode NBN is a clever political approach, as the mix of technologies used for delivery can be changed depending on how well they work, what they cost and what other priorities there are.
Al Blake's call for the ICT industry to rise to the challenge is timely. But to deliver a "connected, technologically literate and effective Australia" we need other industries involved, key to this being the education industry and the creative industries. Otherwise all the NBN will doing is acting as a virtual mega-container ship: importing overseas content and services, then sending ship-loads of cash overseas to pay for the imports.

Service industry jobs are now open to on-line competition from overseas, not only accountants and lawyers, but also university lecturers (and soon school teachers). The solution is not to lower a virtual trade barrier, but to skill up our workforce, so they can compete on-line.

Links at: http://blog.tomw.net.au/2015/09/first-digital-australian-pm.html

Hi Foxy

Abbott the Special's beach interview* not only:

- had him repeating himself 3 times in a hybrid stutter - "brain damage" one might ask?

- but it demonstrated Abbott will not keep a low profile gracefully.

Abbott, with his great talents for negativity, may become the wrecker who undermines Turnbull's shiny new Prime Ministership.

Probably a safe bet in an Australian polity that now shifts PMs faster than Italy or Japan** ever did.

* see http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-22/abbott-says-morrison-badly-misled-public-over-spill/6793608

** see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Japan#Prime_Ministers_during_the_Sh.C5.8Dwa_period_.281947.E2.80.931989.29

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Even the great are fallible :)