Friday, July 30, 2010

Things to do

Memo to Julia - here is something to add to your To-Do list for after August 21st.

When allocating your ministry you will need to put someone with experience, balls and brains in charge of communications.

And the first thing the new Minister should do is junk that internet filter - it was never going to fly and is a relic from Rudd's and Conroy's pandering to the religious right.

Job number two will be to speed up and bulletproof the rollout of the National Broadband Network to ensure that it can never again be jeopardised by the wowsers, the conservatives and those who seek to dumb down our nation.

Job number three will be to deal with our completely dysfunctional, biased and partisan media. Get on the phone to the moguls and their boards and read them the riot act. Tell them that you will legislate unless they fix up their game and give them six months to get their sh*t together.

And tell Rupert to start disposing of his Australian assets because he is not welcome here anymore.

And then get the ABC's Maurice Newman in for a cup of tea and tell him the same thing. Present him with a carrot as well as a big stick. If he puts his house in order then he will get some more funding - if he continues to play silly buggers then he will lose dollars - lots of them. That will focus the minds of the ABC Board and Management.

Job number four will be to claw back those license fee rebates that Rudd and Conroy used to *accommodate* the television moguls - because it clearly didn't work.

And when your new Minister has done these things then he or she should have a couple of years to relax a bit, sit back and monitor progress.

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