Posted @ whirlpool - ILCF pt11

[deleted] writes...Paul Keating thought up the GST and John Howard made it a reality

Incorrect, it was Hewson (Liberal) in his "fightback" campaign in 1991 that sowed those seeds which Keating resisted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hewson

Happy to correct error in here where I see it (such as that oft mis-attributed quote in here of Rabbi Daniel Lapin's)

Seriously folks, if you want to have your arguments agains ILCF (ISP Level Content Filtering) taken seriously in the long term, you will need to keep things simple and CORRECT.

BTW Mark, good interview on Sunrise (or whichever one it was). Kudos. The laid back "I'm a cool frood who really knows where his towel is" approach is nearly always going to be the more successful road to take than a "I'm a rabid one cause FRZ who resents this new attempt at Government intrusion into our lives" (not suggesting you are, but it does contrast to what is hurled at the opposition to your opposition).

You came across as not only being knowledgeable, but also relaxed/easy going, confident, reasonable, righteous (in a good way – ie, not self-righteous), mature, and informative.

No tricks. I'm being serious – not that I expect my opinion to amount to much to you mind you but hey, we can't help our histories.

Dunno if the interview will amount to much (other than the odd watcher thinking "hey, that guy seemed genuine, sincere and didn't bore me to death with his point of view which also seemed reasonable"), but you certainly could have done far worse ... and didn't.

So like I said. Kudos. Tips me hat eben.

Hint to the rest. If Senator Conroy et al are coming across a rabid lunatics (not likely despite how you might like to think so if you put your own filters down for the moment and take an honest look) then make sure you are NOT flip side of the same coin.

ie, don't be rabid loonies for your own preferred way.

Have another look at Mark's interview (sorry, I don't have the link handy but I'm sure it will quickly be provided here) and note the pleasant easy-goingness of it all.

Run of the mill Oz doesn't want rabid nutters in their face thrusting leaflets, wild gazes and flecks of spit in the corners of the mouth. It is far more likely to respond to healthy looking reasoned and carefully delivered/non speedy common sense.

You wanna "protect the children" not scare 'em, yes ?

Anyway, as Zannecki (sp? Sorry, I'm in WA and anything longer than "Koshi" is too hard to remember :)) said at the end of the interview; "I don't think it is going to get up"

He could be right, but I suspect SOMETHING new will be put into place like it or not in the end.

regarDS