You can never be too rich, or too thin... or have too much bandwidth.

Maybe there is life in Dr Death.Kevin was infamous in reducing the bloated bureaucracies in Queensland,perhaps he could do likewise for the rest of Aust.I will vote for that!

We have a PS future fund for Pollies and Public Servants,does that mean the unwashed masses don't have a future?

We have too much Govt and suffocating bureaucracy,we need to sack the States and the rest of us will have a future.

Alas little Kev I fear will be nothing more than Dr Lipservice.

Cook Shire had barely one computer in Council let alone one in the community at the turn of the year 2000. It is only in the past few years that people are finding the Computer Internet and Mobile Phones as a valuable resource here.

Thanks to the FARMWIDE - CONNECTING THE NATION - a drive on Partnerships and the opportunity of getting the first HUB with TGP.com.au.... that we are learning as a community, joining in with Australia and the rest of World.

WAKE UP!

The thing lacking is continuity. TPG had to pull out of Cooktown because of the lack of infrastructure in Telecommunications here (ie: wet season, STD's etc... plus ALL-the USER-fees involved) - as we are so isolated, and providing service over such rugged distances (+ old lines) is extremely difficult.

Loosing the initial Farmwide partnership HUB has meant we in this community are now vulnerable to AD HOC IPS service providers who can charge what they want. Most don't care two hoots for our technical problems, or how much it all costs. It is a major issue in communications, here in Cape York.

Perhaps if you just stuck to the facts Ariel under a call for "Liberty And Justice For All", you might trade some of your addiction to yuppy groove for a sensible analysis and;

a) you might influence the public service to help citizens everywhere achieve better allocations through the opportunity of improved resource distributions and;

b) influence either political party to help solve problems regardless of the brownie points locked between power struggles.

Ya Never Never Know If YA Don't Have a Go eh?

Also, anyone who claims the Future Fund would loose needs their denials read! The point is that it has been stated that it "could" come out of an income stream, not savings. The idea is one that would work to build on our nations future.... not the reverse.

This issue is too important to play wreakless with. We need those at the helm to solve problems not waste idiot time quarrelling smoke screens.

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What a pathetic collection of eye grabbers you use for a title.

And you come to the conclusion a politician would do anything to get into office. Is this your thesis? Have you got your rewards academically? It's so insightful mate.

What a load of recycled QLD drinking water.

The title inferred a drug? well it may well be a dope was involved in the story.
Conservatives must understand substance is what they need not such miss information as this.
The future fund Costello says is for superannuation for public servants?
My super tax's no one its going to keep me of social security and maybe the government should fund it own Dept's.
Having sold Australians something they already owned Telstra just maybe we could use some of the money to do what when publicly owned it was charged with doing?
Plausible denial is worn out this government and its supporters must forget the lie and find policy's.

Jonothan, your analogy of the mall is spot on for what the Internet does, however you have completely missed the point.

The reason why the market hasn't yet rolled out a next-generation network is because of the absolute mess the government has made of the privatisation of Telstra. You appear to have no insight into or understanding of the current state of play in the telecommunications industry.

Now, I did write out a long and detailed reply, but for some stupid reason this site limits posts to 350 words and I had 509. Instead, I think you can get a good picture about how the Howard government has screwed Australia over with regards to telecommunications by reading the articles on the site here:

http://web.mac.com/simon_hackett/iWeb/Site/Technology/Technology.html

It is by Simon Hackett, the founder, owner and CEO of Internode/Agile - who has been an instrumental player in the telecommunications industry this decade.