The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
It is interesting, no doubt. And I would imagine the Department of the
House of Representatives (yes, weirdly it has its own department) is
looking at it right now. It would seem strange if a message – whether
its Twitter or a bulk email or a blog update – that is narrowcast or
broadcast to people all over the planet would attract privilege.
I just know it’s not going to be that simple. An immediate counter
argument would be that #QT is broadcast via the internet and
free-to-air TV to millions of people outside the chamber, with the
content of those broadcasts privileged.
On ABC radio Annabel seemed to suggest privilege extended to what made
it into Hansard, so therefore tweets were out. Joe wasn’t so sure,
because rants across the chamber that don’t get picked up by the
Hansard reporters are privileged – so Hansard can’t be the test.
Social media policy is being invented right now. All we know for sure is that it turns young people into … erm … young people.
Frankly, I think the situation would resolve itself if Joe would just sit up straight and put the damn Blackberry down.
Regardless, there are very obvious and very practical reasons for using
Twitter and other social media tools in politics. And Joe is both a big
fan. He’s been an early adopter and is a successful user of these tools.
Both sides of politics continue to polish and hone their social media
arsenal ahead of the election, some time between now and about March
2011.
The Opposition this week launched what it calls Question Time
Brief on its LiberalPartyTV service via YouTube. It’s pretty
interesting – a very short succinct video summary of what happened in #QT each day,
with all the Opposition’s messages-of-the-day included. Joe's done one, and Chris Pyne has done a couple.
Malcolm Turnbull then tweets a short URL link to to the video to his 15,600 Twitter
followers, Joe Hockey tweets his 3,000-odd (as do other Coalition
members) and you can start to see how Twitter becomes very, very useful.
So, yes, Joe Hockey is a Gen-Y TwitterHead. And he ain't gonna change.
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