Jon

You've never heard of me, and if all goes well, you never will. I'm one of the couple of hundred people who design, build and deploy front line banking applications in Australia. I've worked in IT for over a decade now in a wide variety of positions across federal and state government and private enterprise. I have been involved in the internet in Australia since before the first commercial ISP's. What you've proposed makes no sense; will not work as you intend; and will do nothing to further the greater good of the Australian people. It will waste a lot of time and money. I understand that you stand to lose face by backing down from this. Given the noise the idiocy of this policy is generating across the on- and offline worlds I think that it has reached the point where continuing this course of action can do nothing to recover the respect you previously held and the unfulfilled promise of the new Labor government. I (and my entire family) have always voted Labor in the past. This fiasco is a betrayal, and an amazing triumph of ignorance over consultation and research. I will not be voting Labor again, this truly is a step too far.