Malcolm Turnbull accused of Lying

Malcolm Turnbull accused of blatantly lying.
He has been accused by Delimiter of lying to radio station Triple J and to that great paragon of virtue Alan Jones on 2GB.
From Delimiter.

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Malcolm Turnbull earlier this week made several statements on Alan Jones’ breakfast show on 2GB radio which the Communications Minister is aware are false, repeating incorrect information he had previously broadcast on the ABC’s Triple J several weeks ago and failing to correct incorrect information broadcast by Jones himself.

Renai from Delimiter continues.

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I remind you of the Australian Government’s Standards of Ministerial Ethics document, which is published on line here in PDF format. This document states:

“Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries hold high public office and are entrusted with considerable privilege and power. The people of Australia are entitled to expect that, in the discharge of their duties, they will act in a manner that is consistent with the highest standards of integrity and propriety.”

The document further states:

“Ministers are expected to be honest in the conduct of public office and take all reasonable steps to ensure that they do not mislead the public or the Parliament. It is a Minister’s personal responsibility to ensure that any error or misconception in relation to such a matter is corrected or clarified, as soon as practicable and in a manner appropriate to the issues and interests involved.”

Renai has pointed out on a number of occasions Turnbull's misleading comments. It is unfortunate that this will not be aired in the Murdoch press or the ABC.
The ABC had Malcolm Turnbull on Q&A this week and Tony Jones the moderator went out of his way to shut down NBN questions to Turnbull.
I cannot believe that Turnbull was not asked any questions on the NBN considering he is the Communications Minister responsible for this huge infrastructure build.
Something is fishy there.

Coalitions Broadband Policy

The Coalitions broadband policy is causing ructions in the Telecommunication Industry. 

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National broadband provider iiNet has published an extensive list of questions it still has regarding the Coalition’s plans to alter Labor’s National Broadband Network strategy, noting that details ranging from points of interconnect to who would build the network are still unknown, a month after the Federal Election.

The telecommunication industry are very much in the dark over what is happening. The Coalition have no idea as far as I can see. This could be turning into a debacle like their telecommunication debacle under Howard.
http://delimiter.com.au/2013/10/17/c...il-says-iinet/

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The ISP pointed out that the Coalition had not yet announced key details of its plans, such as who would build its infrastructure (with candidates including the current outsourced construction industry model, in-sourcing the construction to NBN Co or even handing a large portion of the construction work to Telstra).

If they want Telstra to build it they had better hurry, because Telstra are getting rid of workers as fast a a socialite gets rid of last years fashions.

Fighting the NBN Bullshit

This is from Delimiter, an online technology magazine.
From Delimiter,

Over the past several weeks, several prominent newspaper commentators have published a number of factual inaccuracies with respect to the Federal Government’s National Broadband Network project. With the aim of informing good public policy debate, it seems appropriate to try and correct the record.

It starts out talking of the Daily Telegraph commentator Piers Akerman.
From his opinionated article that was published in the Daily Terror Telegraph on the 4th January.
They have signaled out a number of things in his piece and bullshit busted them.
The things that Akerman said are below.

The NBN is the most expensive piece of infrastructure ever committed to by the nation and is on track to be the greatest ever economic disaster any government has ever created.

Only 4000 homes have been connected to the fibre optic cable so far at a cost of more than $1 billion … NBN’s own projection for 2011 were 35,000 connections. That is a huge discrepancy and a massive failure to deliver.

Everything about the NBN is dodgy.

 The creation of the NBN Co was itself a demonstration of Labor’s lack of administrative skills and ineptitude with no background checks conducted on the men who have been handed a blank cheque drawn on the taxpayers of the nation.

Below is from Dean Jaensch, a political science academic and commentator for The Advertiser in Adelaide.

The roll-out is miles behind what NBN Co set as a target. It promised 35,000 connections by mid-2011. By the end of 2011, the NBN Co spin-doctors proudly announced that they had connected 12 per cent of the target.

We did not even have the opportunity to closely examine a prospectus before we decided to invest. The Government can claim that its mandate to inaugurate the NBN was based on the 2010 election result.

But it would be a good idea to let the public learn and understand what is going on in the finances and productivity of a company that they, not the Government, own and will pay for. Secrecy is not the best way to win support.

This low productivity has the potential to be interpreted as another policy failure coming up.

Now go to the Delimiter article to see the Bullshit Busting.