Alston Retiring
The man described by detracters as “the world’s biggest Luddite” has stepped down from his office as Federal minister for Communications, Information Technology and The Arts, and announced his retirement. Prime Minister Howard dropped the bombshell yesterday when commenting on a ministerial reshuffle. Alston alienated many Australian internet users, especially gamers, during his term as minister. Among his more celebrated efforts were dismissing broadband as a gaming platform, calling the national rollout of broadband a waste of time and linking it with the use of pornography (thank goodness he never visited a LAN), and spending $4 million on the development of a second rate and buggy website. I don’t know about the last one though. Six figures is a small price to pay for such clean looking access to generic government information. I think they’ve fixed most of the 380 scripting errors originally on the front page.
posted by monty · at 8:50 pm · filed under News
Ding dong the bitch is dead.. maybe now we can see some more Govt support for our under-recognised industry….