Somebody get me some popcorn: This could get very messy. Today Senator Conroy announced that the Rudd government has made some pretty major changes to telecommunications laws that will require Telstra to structurally separate its wholesale and retail businesses. And if they don’t do it voluntarily, the government’s going to bring the pain… More »
Last night at 7pm, internet activists Anonymous hit a heap of government websites in a DoS attack in order to protest their planned internet filter. And according to Duncan Riley at The Inquisitr, they even succeeded in taking down pm.gov.au for a little bit. More »
If you’ve been watching the upcoming trainwreck that is the Digital TV transition happening in the US at the moment and thinking, “I’m glad that’s not us”, here’s a sobering thought: K-Rudd yesterday announced a $13.6 million package to supply digital set-top boxes for pensioners in Mildura, where the analogue signal will be switched off next year. Can you sense the impending doom?
New Kotaku AU editor David has posed a very interesting question over on our sister site today: Is Kevin Rudd a gamer? Normally, the mere idea of any politician in power as a gamer strikes me as absurd, but the fact is that K-Rudd (or his staff) spends a lot of time on social networking tools like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, so why not gaming? With the latest batch of consoles (and most current PC titles too), games are becoming more and more about engaging with your fellow man, right before you blow a hole in his virtual head (sometimes you have one blown in yours instead).
Do you reckon the PM partakes in the odd bit of gaming? Would he own any consoles? Head on over to Kotaku to discuss with our gaming-obsessed brethren…
