You think that we’re being shafted by Telstra and the government now? Just wait till they’ve finished bending over backwards to pat each other on the backs with this one. At least some people are prepared to analyse the name calling and full-page for and against ads in the papers and look into why Telstra wants the government to “rein in the ACCC” (that rogue regulator) and let Telstra have monopoly access to $9 billion worth of not-yet-built broadband network.
From Charles Wright, the final paragraph sums it all up:
No government in Australia’s history has demonstrated a fraction of the contempt for the electorate implicit in virtually every thought, word and deed of the Howard Government. No Prime Minister has been able to get away with mouthing one lie after another, while doing precisely the opposite of what he pledged. No political party with any conviction or the slightest claim to integrity could contemplate the shredding of principle in such a fashion. What a truly shameless mob they are.
