As Crikey was going to press with Chris Berg’s polemic against municipal broadband projects, I addressed a room in Sydney’s CBD packed with representatives from ACCC, Senator Coonan’s office, Telstra and ACMA, telling them exactly why the San Francisco project had failed to gain traction.
Mendacious
A Green preference vote to the Liberal Party?
Since becoming an Australian citizen in 1996 I have exercised my right to vote ticking either the Green or Labor boxes and preferencing accordingly. Never did I give the Liberal candidates a second thought, nor imagine that I ever would. Now, though, with Rudd’s extremely regressive forest policy, this looks to be the year that the Liberal team gets preferenced ahead of Labor.
As support for war ebbs, will Howard be left high and dry?
John Howard might have been a bit slow on the uptake in regard to climate change, but has he also missed the political wind shift over Iraq?
