Comments on: New website launched for Senator Lundy

By: greebo

greebo — Sun, 03 May 2009 07:55:34 +0000

Hi “comeon”, what are you talking about? How have I changed who I am? I am committed to my beliefs, and I’m not sure what you are referring to. I think that one of the best ways to help make things better is to participate in the process, but I don’t believe this will mean I have to compromise my beliefs. In fact I’ve already said publicly that one of the things I’m excited about is helping improve transparency and openness in government, so what are you upset about? Happy to chat about it via my blog, but it would be much nicer to know to whom I’m speaking As most people who know me know, I am consistent in my ideas, and so I’m confused about your concerns.

Hopefully through my actions people will see that I will be doing my very best in my new role to help make things better, not worse.

By: comeon

comeon — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:03:27 +0000

Really Pia, have you lost your mind, was it not you at LinuX Conf who was saying things about internet filtering and agreeing with the fact that we need a bill of rights, just seems strange that you would change who you are for a political role that you can never influence anyway… anyways just upset cause i actually thought despite what people say in the open source community you had commitment to your belifs? Shame Shame

By: greebo

greebo — Fri, 01 May 2009 09:36:59 +0000

@Martin,

I think getting more online and public participation in policy making and decisions would help with transparency, and then it is a matter of trying to get more transparency up the line. This is going to be a long and hard road to transparent and open government, and we are just trying to make a start

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 01 May 2009 07:34:47 +0000

How could we - through her online presence - help make Australian Government processes more transparent?

I hope this doesn’t sound like a stuck record but… let’s look at Stephen Conroy and the filtering thing, which is reasonably close to Lundy’s portfolio. Let’s leave aside whether it will work, or whether it’d be desirable, or whether it’s a good tradeoff, and just look at the way the debate was conducted. There’s precious little transparency there, no attempt to make an argument on the merits or from values, just an attempt to smear people and to run straight over people making quite reasonable points, or to fob them off with unresponsive answers. Respectable surveys found something like 85+% of people opposed, which he apparently just ignored.

Upgrading to WordPress is nice enough, but what’s actually needed is a change of attitude towards genuinely listening to and integrating the input.

The Rudd government seems to do that very well in some areas but very poorly in others. I don’t know why.