Well done Joyce, very nice backflip. Surely even you know a FTTH plan is like a highway, not a car.

I have a distinct memory of you saying back in April 2009 -

"How could we disagree with something that is quite evidently our idea."

"This delivers a strategic infrastructure outcome."

"It is vitally important that the National Broadband Network gets to the corners of our country where the market has failed, at a price that is both affordable and a service that is comparable."

I respected you a lot Joyce, but now I'm keeping my vote with ALP.

Tom:

Voting for the ALP is a very bad choice. Surely you know what Labor/Greens are doing to our farmers. Why don't you vote for one of the smaller conservative parties, preferencing those to the right (rather than the Wong and her water rationing)?

Bob Hawke is supposed to be supporting the Labor candidate for Dickson, Fiona McNamara. Far from being the Champion of the Worker, during his reign of terror, he had lots of injured workers dumped onto the scrap heap, including myself.

Labor has signed all of the international agreements that sell us out as a nation. A vote for them is a vote to give away our national sovereignty to global banks.

Is that what you want???

Hi Barnaby,
I support the best possible broadband for Regional Australia.
Who wouldn’t?
But, Whose NBN is it anyway?
Are you aware that S.Conroy plans to sell the NBN to China, once the taxpayer has taken all the risk of financing it and building it?
Are you aware that no reserve price is set?
Are you aware that no one believes the construction and finance price will be returned?

Are you aware that a key Chinese player in this process is a private company with deep links to the PLA?
That the same company has been subject to ASIO investigation?

That Conroy sees no problem in handling command and control of our telecommunications infrastructure to a ruthless communist dictatorship, known for its prowess with Electronic and Internet Warfare and Internet Censorship?
Are you aware that the same regime is busily building a massive fleet of Nuclear Powered and Nuclear Armed Aircraft Carriers and Missile equipped Nuclear Submarines for the sole purpose of dominating the Pacific...

China would never allow foreign access to its basic telecommunications infrastructure.
No self respecting country would.
Protect Australia from this terrible regime and insist on Australian only investment, ownership and control.
Do not be persuaded by humbug assurances.

This is a really serious business.

Recall, the role the Chinese embassy played in the promotion of Fitzgibbon in the ALP.
He went on to become defence minister...
Then he went to Washington to try and persuade the USA to sell us the best fighter plane known to fly, the F22...
Unsurprisingly they said No.
OMG.

Mike Cockburn:

I dare not tell one of my sons what you have mentioned here. He is a senior IT security specialist with the Dept of Defence. His job is to keep the Chinese out of our security systems.

His work is already so stressful that it has given him 2 seizures and many other strange health episodes, despite the fact he isn't an epileptic!

He cannot tell us what goes on in his workplace, as he is sworn to secrecy.

But it wasn't very long ago that the Minister for Defence got the sack for tripping back and forth to China at the expense of a Chinese woman.

I'm sure I wouldn't want to work in national security with this treasonous Labor government still in place.

Let's hope those Independents ignore Julia Gillard's well televised bribes, in which she cajoles them with folders containing promises (probably mostly false) of largess for their electorates.

It's hard to believe what the world is coming to, if a Prime Minister is able to get away with this approach in front of 23 million viewers!

# Lorikeet, Sen Joyce,
It's worse than you think!

With Labor / Sen Conroy only too happy to sell 'our' NBN to China, via a proxy company, this is what will happen:
Every email you send, every phone call you make, every bank transaction you commit, every text, pdf file, excel spreadsheet, every electronic communication will be capable of being sifted for intelligence by this hostile entity.

Australian Companies will be spied upon, analysed and picked off with consumate ease by a hostile China Inc.

With this in mind, the NBN as a concept cannot be sold to the Australian public.

Jo(e) Public would not want the NBN at any cost if this treasonous policy was laid out for their consideration.

Barnaby, the evitable china sale is a serious turn off to the NBN. ...stick with it. Conroy doesnt deny it. We have a pissweak fleet of jornos in this country that wont pursue this. Labor will spend 80 billion on it....and sell it to a 'private' tech company for say 15 billion?
What a bloody disaster train wreck in slow motion.
Mat

#Barnaby, #Lorikeet, #Mat, check this link out, headline "Huawei launches charm offensive":
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/business/items/201103/s3173212.htm
For those too busy to click, Des Ball from ANU says:
DES BALL, STRATEGIC & DEFENCE STUDIES CENTRE, ANU:
I'd be very wary when it comes to our telecommunications architecture. You're basically giving on a platter access to official communications, official databases, our national security secrets, as well as, potentially, a whole range of economic information and other private information which can be exploited.

-- A spot on reinforcement of my comments from 2010.

This NBN contrivance has been done elsewhere. Same interview, not picked up by journo. No surprise there:
"... is the only company in the world that is currently delivering a wholesale network in the United Kingdom and in Singapore."
... leading the observant reader to the conclusion, if not the question, that this is the mysterious origin of the whole NBN thing.
Someone has knocked on the door of our comrade senator and offered him a lead role in buying a new widget called "a wholesale network".
No one could work out the wellspring from which this massive security breach and economic suicide plot was hatched.
Why else would you hand over one of the few remaining Australian dominated sectors to foreign interests?
This in itself is an unresolved story.

If previous security breaches pertaining to foreign government interests bribing via donation or otherwise influencing our members of parliament, sometimes across generations, then this nasty tale ought to get your attention:
[they were]"... a major sponsor of a conference at the Liberal Party think tank the Menzies Research Centre, attended by Tony Abbott".

OMG

Although this story has major legs, don't expect any serious followup.
After I spotted Comrade Conroy's faux pas prior to the last Federal Election, all tapes and records of THE INTERVIEW were mysteriously lost at the ABC.

No ABC or Newspaper Journalists wanted to run with it. I tried heaps of them.
Although paragraphs were sent in explanation, no one I know can pick an understandable stream of thought, justification or reason other than cowardice or worse.

You can't fix an election any other way.