Brent

19/12/2008 "Yes, we know you want to talk about filtering and we will be posting about it on Monday..."

Its Monday (1:53pm AEDT) yet no post. One measure of success would be succeeding in posting when you claim to. Another measure of success would be to not attempt to hide the most important topic of note in the one week guaranteed to have most professional people absent from their normal work environment, and therefore less likely to comment on it.

As for less topical measures, succes would be in having the government actually re-regulate the company it created without any controls, any guarantees of service, and without any idea of what it was doing.

Telstra was given a packaged infrastructure as well as a retail arm. The retail is fine if a little (read: a lot) overpriced, but the infrastructure arm should never have been given over to a profit earning organisation. Make it an NPO who's requirement is to maintain, upgrade and expand the infrastructure coverage, while selling data equally to all buyers. Maybe you could make that your new broadband project instead of just throwing a few billion out to tender and hoping for the best. Success could then be measured by services for the bush, general access, fast service connection times (1 day not 2 weeks), high speed open access to the internet....

Oh wait, success is apparently measured by how much political spin can be garnered from quaking parents who don't know any better than the govt about what will or won't protect their children.

"Are there barriers that confront some sectors of our economy in the use of online technologies?"... Some but the worst is yet to come.