From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: malcolm.turnbull.mp@aph.gov.au Cc: Bcc: Subject: Survey on Coalition NBN plans Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, 47 Kleins Road, Dereel, VIC, Australia Phone: +61-3-5346-1370 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Mr Turnbull, I have been following your plans to overhaul the National Broadband Network with interest. A number of friends and I are wondering whether you really intend to implement the plans you presented last month, or whether this is a political move to improve on closer to the elections. Certainly I can state that no government that makes this kind of plan will win my vote. You have already been bombarded with technical and logistic reasons against the policy, so I won't add to the noise. I went looking for surveys about general acceptance of the plans. The only one I could find, certainly not representative, was at http://itnews.com.au. The results so far show that 19% of respondents are in favour of the plan. This seems unrealistically high to me. But then I found a link on your own web site, at http://www.malcolmturnbull.com.au/media/launch-of-the-coalition-nationwide-broadband-survey/ As it states,

The survey is available at www.fasterbroadband.com.au

I show the HTML markup here because it clearly shows that the URL presented to the user (www.fasterbroadband.com.au) is not the URL of the link (http://www.malcolmturnbull.com.au/fasterbroadband). I know this misleading usage from network criminals; it's the first time I've seen a respected politician doing it. Clearly in this case your intentions are benign, but why did you do it in the first place? And of course, the survey is long over, but the page has not been updated to indicate that fact; instead it presents an error message from surveygizmo. Even after closing the survey I would have expected you to keep the results available. The real question, though: now you have a policy. Many people have opinions on it. It could make or break the election for you. Why have you not started a new survey asking for opinions on the policy? Sincerely Greg Lehey -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua