David Tangye

The government needs to address and DO something urgently about these 3 issues:

1. Sort the Telstra fiasco out. Stop cowtowing to power. Take Australia's comms infrastructure back, and outsource management and marketing perhaps in a similar way to how electricity is done.

2. Proactively encourage the adoption of open source solutions. Stop cowtowing to power. Eg: Why do you dictate that I must buy Microsoft products to file my tax return? Get rid of or reeducate all the deadheads in your IT departments.

3. Get smart about the netfilter issue. Its obvious that the internet should be free, and not bogged down with a sledgehammer approach that is going to shoot us all in the foot. Take an intelligent approach to the issue of porn and spam on the net, not a draconian big-brother technology and set of laws that will not work anyway.

Get forward-thinking advisors, and retire a few in Canberra that are playing their games of 'preserve the status quo'. If you do not know what I mean, then you are part of the problem, not the solution.

Thanks for my opportunity to opine. I hope I am heard somewhere. We can but hope.