Last year, our broadband leader Senator Stephen Conroy confessed that his daughter had locked him out of his iPhone. It seems the younger Conroy is continuing to be a digital thorn in her father’s side, and has now taken to messing with his alarm clock.
Conroy made an appearance at the launch of a new HP data centre project for Western Sydney this morning, but was delayed by almost an hour. Much of that was down to plane issues and traffic problems in Melbourne, but Conroy confessed that there was also a toddler factor:
I would like to just blame the planes, but my four year old turned the alarm off.
We’d hope that wasn’t an iPhone alarm anyway, given the reliability problems that has experienced. Either way it looks like getting a second alarm clock – or perhaps organising a phone-based reminder service – might be a good idea for the Senator. Championing the NBN is tricky if you sleep in.
Sunny Kalsi
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 11:16 AMHas anyone checked if Conroy actually has a four year old? Just saying.
SPK
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 11:58 AMOr he just needs to put a pin on his phone…
Pretty poor security.
Chris
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 12:05 PMIf he can’t manage to get up in the morning how is he to manage the nations communication infrastructure. This man has his finger on our future to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars and he can’t wake up in the morning.
RobbyM
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 12:18 PMConroy has to actually think for himself? I thought the Australian Christian Lobby did most of that for him.
Daniel Weaver-Koenigs
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 2:32 PMNo wonder he thinks Australia needs an internet filter, he’s an incompetent parent who can’t even keep track of what his 4 year old does with electronics.
Tom Reynolds
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 3:00 PMIs “the four year old” what he calls himself when he has a tech fail?
NaE
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 11:22 PMNah, that’s what he calls his total years of ‘I.T.’ knowledge he thinks he’s managed to amass in his brain.
Jonboy
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 11:22 PMFrom wikipedia:
Senator Conroy is a Catholic, and is said to be socially conservative.
But Ewwwww.
Conroy and his wife, Paula Benson, have a daughter born in November 2006 with the assistance of an egg donor and a surrogate mother, both friends of the Conroys.
So yea he has a 4yr old.
DBO
Friday, February 4, 2011 at 8:28 AMI’m sure if you look up Idiot in the dictionary there’s a picture of Conroy smiling back at you.