Idealist; one guided by ideals;

So I recently wrote an email to the Rudd Government about their ludicrous plans to introduce filtering into all Australians’ access to the Internet. I also wrote to the Greens and the Opposition.

You can see the transcript of this email here.

I received pretty standard response from both the Greens and the Liberals, from someone in their offices dealing with this particular policy. They were pretty predictable, but well received nonetheless. And I got a response in a timely fashion.

However from the Government, more specifically from the office of the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, I got this response:

Dear Mr Clay

Thank you for your recent email to the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.

If you would like a reply to your email please provide your full postal address within 7 days, and every effort will be made to respond to your questions and comments as soon as possible.

Please note that if no address is provided within 7 days a formal reply will not be sent, although your comments will be noted.

Yours sincerely

Parliamentary Liaison Section

RIDICULOUS! Is this the correct response to receive from the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy?

Please send us your postal address quoting a reference number and we will POST you a letter?! That would be laughable if it weren’t so depressing.

This is a clear demonstration of how behind the eight-ball the government and Minister Conroy is. Prime Minister Rudd can harp on about his (now disastrously enacted) NBN and how every ‘working family will have fibre-to-the-node’ (like he knows what that means) but this just demonstrates how these are nothing but fair-weather headline-grabbing promises, and at its heart, the Rudd government has no clear handle on the ‘Digital Economy’.