So much fail from the Australian government technology wise recently. This is all despite supposedly having a "tech focused Prime Minister". Ditching FTTP for

So much fail from the Australian government technology wise recently. This is all despite supposedly having a "tech focused Prime Minister". Ditching FTTP for FTTN while increasing in price and managing to slow down the rollout (copper is the future!). 25 mbit for everyone by 2016! No upgrade path! Actually make that 2020, and we don't care if you only get 25mit for 2 seconds at 3am and otherwise get 1kb that's good enough for us! (for the record, I believe FTTP would have been late and over budget as well, but at least you delivered FTTP's highway to FTTN's goat path) An innovation push which cut funds to organisation's such as the CSIRO (invented usable WiFi etc...) and failed to mention the afore mentioned rollout at all, presumably because they know it is a waste of taxpayer money. Followed by a promise that the Census website would not go down, which promptly crashed and burned instantly. Then the blame game started with claims of a hack, followed by DDOS, followed by faulty hardware, followed by claims of all three. All the while, the Minister in charge, a security expert and the ABS all contradicting each other over what had happened. This for the low low price of 20+ million dollars https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cph9c4aUkAAyyuZ.jpg:large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cph9c4aUkAAyyuZ.jpg:large In short the technology sector in Australia has been wrecked for the next 20 years along with the reputation of the ABS which was held in high regard by many. But its OK! We have a plan to dig more stuff out of the ground and sell it to China/Vietnam/Indonesia, and we promise next time it will work, especially when we move to online voting!