Hi Senator Ian Macdonald,
First of all, thanks for your personalized email to me. It’s nice to know that there are senators out there that care. While I agree with some of your points, I would like to ask a question regarding the “Stopping the boats” statement. Can’t we just move New Zealand to be in between us and them. We wouldn’t be stopping them, and gives New Zealand a chance to actually do some work rather than ski, and bungee jump.
I also noticed that the signature on the letter you sent me is quite large, in fact several lines down, and nearly the whole page long. I’ve always wanted to see a senator standing up for the people that want form to have large signature boxes. It’s a great idea, because I usually run out of space writing my name on tax and medicare forms, let alone my signature, which is in fact a picture of a Eskimo, cooking a fish outside his igloo (hence why the small box is annoying!). That aside, I suggest we don’t increase the size of credit cards to fit a signature that size. It would very annoying to find a wallet that size.
I would like to also thank you for inviting me to www.liberal.org.au. I still haven’t got a chance to look at nationals.org.au because I haven’t been invited. Having to be invited to each website makes surfing the internet quite hard.
Regards,
Michael Wheeler
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Federal Electionzzzzzzzzzzzz
Michelle Landry is so bored with this election she feel asleep on the keyboard!
The election begins…
Hi Kirsten,
Thanks for the letter drop. You have beat everyone else to the game in regards to pamphlets, and your views are quite nice. Before I place my vote on election day I would to voice my concerns. My biggest one that I would like to point out, and question you is the left hand section of the pamphlet, about “Helping local organisations”.
At first I thought that the pamphlet was a little folded or on an angle, but upon closer inspection I noticed that it wasn’t a rectangle or a square. My first thoughts was that it was a rhombus, but latter googling and wikipedia research revealed that it was infact a parallelogram. What I would like to know, is why did you choose this shape? It’s far different from every other on the page and looks quite odd. Maybe if it were in the middle it would be better placed.
Another thing I would like cleared up is the placement of the title text. Most humans are taught fairly early to read top down left to right, while your text is placed right bottom. Is this a hint that you will changing our eduction system, and possibly changing English for a language that is read back to front than our norm, or was this an attempt to get votes for people from these nationalities?
Finally, could you please quickly comment on why your pamphlet colour scheme is superior to your competitors.
Kind Regards,
Michael Wheeler
The "Naked Cowboy"
Good news, it seems like no more porn filter, but ISP level filtering will go ahead with child porn url dectection. 
Email from the dbcbe
ISP FILTERING
Thank you for your correspondence and your interest in internet service provider (ISP) filtering.
Attached is information from the Minister on this matter. In addition, the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has prepared material on a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding ISP filtering. This list is available on the Department’s website at www.dbcde.gov.au/cybersafetyplan
These FAQs will be updated regularly to provide you with the most up to date information on ISP filtering issues.
We hope this information is of assistance.
The Department of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy
National Broadband Network
“As a key element of its plan for the future, the Australian Government has committed to provide up to $4.7 billion and to consider necessary regulatory changes to facilitate the roll-out of a new open access, high-speed, fibre-based broadband network, providing downlink speeds of at least 12 megabits per second to 98 per cent of Australian homes and businesses.”
I’m all for Australia have a good Broadband network, but I have two problems at the moment. Who will own this network and what about international links.
At the moment I can see Telstra being paid by the government to setup this network, and give them the rights to charge huge amounts of cash for other companies to use it. It’s currently $80 for 25GB on 1.5MBit, which for me seems way to much money, considering the internet isn’t owned or run by them. They are making profit out of others work, correct? (and for your information it costs $150 a gigabyte after you go over your limit)
It’s all great giving every household 12mbit down links, until you realize that, every household with 12mbit will wanna access and download from places off shore. Currently we struggle to provide internet over these links as is, and giving people more bandwidth to use that you don’t have is just bad practice.
There have been many cases where one fiber break offshore have caused our whole national network to run at 5kbs, with epic lag. This problem needs to be fixed up.
That is all.
Comic Mash Up
Thought I’d have a go at making a comic / art feature. I thought I would mash up a few pictures and famous people, mix a few things together and see what happens. I suck at being creative but here it goes.
Ps, For the people that don’t know the other guy is Linus Torvalds, he’s jesus of the Linux wonderland. FreeBSD will rule.
Update, made a typo 