Comments for Macrison Company - Integrated Marketing And Communication http://www.macrison.com.au Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:31:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 Comment on Australia – What will become of us? by admin http://www.macrison.com.au/?p=476&cpage=1#comment-284 admin Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:31:58 +0000 http://www.macrison.com.au/?p=476#comment-284 I am 100% with you on the absolute importance of the National Broadband Network for Australia. Without it we won't have a place in the global economy. Innovation will die. For innovation to reap us a reward, we need to be able to sell it beyond our shores. What I am looking for from Gillard in this example is her ability to communicate this. If she were to sell this properly, Abbott and Hockey would not be able to argue that it is too expensive. Your points on education are insightful and visionary, yet where have I heard a single politician talk about education accept in simple language like putting a computer on every desk. Or not doing so, depending on which side of the fence you are! Education is the greatest gift we can give anyone. It is worthy of the investment of our tax dollars, but am I confident that any leader in this country is going to get education right - No! Hey thanks for sharing on my blog, it's been great!! cheers joan I am 100% with you on the absolute importance of the National Broadband Network for Australia. Without it we won’t have a place in the global economy. Innovation will die. For innovation to reap us a reward, we need to be able to sell it beyond our shores. What I am looking for from Gillard in this example is her ability to communicate this. If she were to sell this properly, Abbott and Hockey would not be able to argue that it is too expensive.

Your points on education are insightful and visionary, yet where have I heard a single politician talk about education accept in simple language like putting a computer on every desk. Or not doing so, depending on which side of the fence you are! Education is the greatest gift we can give anyone. It is worthy of the investment of our tax dollars, but am I confident that any leader in this country is going to get education right – No!

Hey thanks for sharing on my blog, it’s been great!!

cheers
joan

]]> Comment on Australia – What will become of us? by jim kerrison http://www.macrison.com.au/?p=476&cpage=1#comment-280 jim kerrison Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:32:07 +0000 http://www.macrison.com.au/?p=476#comment-280 Possibly your right on the Keating, Hawke influence. And Although it was Rudd government that delivered the stimulus, I believe Either party would have done exactly the same thing and to the same extent if they were in power at the time. What we are hearing from the liberal opposition is exactly that, oppositional rantings. Although under a Gillard leadership the labour party has become almost indistinguishable from liberal, there is still one significant difference. This difference is very much based in the future, I'm of course refereing to the NBN. Although Abbott claims not to be tech savvy on such matters his policy on broadband is at best archaic and at worst, according to scientists, impossible to implement. The benefits offered by labours NBN are at this stage of technological development fairly limited but future prospects are unlimited. In particular my future field of education can only benefit. Making sure accessibility and connectiveness are world class will open a wealth of pedagogical opportunities, that will be required to keep the "digital natives" of the future engaged in the classroom. No longer will chalk and talk cut it. Without sounding to much like a conspiracy theorist, Abbott's unwillingness to recognise this reeks of a governement which would prefere its constituents uneducated. After all it was only last year that Hockey stated on insight, that they would not waste money on education. An uneducated population is much easier to control, much easier to convince on policy decissions like work choices. Luckily we were educated enough to realise that every time they spoke about being competitive with asia, it meant that anyone working in a manufacturing industry would have to effectively work for $2US/ day. On the other hand an educated population can compete by being a 'smart economy' that profits from innovation. Again the NBN will be a valuable tool in educating the population towards this scenario. Possibly your right on the Keating, Hawke influence. And Although it was Rudd government that delivered the stimulus, I believe Either party would have done exactly the same thing and to the same extent if they were in power at the time. What we are hearing from the liberal opposition is exactly that, oppositional rantings.
Although under a Gillard leadership the labour party has become almost indistinguishable from liberal, there is still one significant difference. This difference is very much based in the future, I’m of course refereing to the NBN. Although Abbott claims not to be tech savvy on such matters his policy on broadband is at best archaic and at worst, according to scientists, impossible to implement. The benefits offered by labours NBN are at this stage of technological development fairly limited but future prospects are unlimited. In particular my future field of education can only benefit. Making sure accessibility and connectiveness are world class will open a wealth of pedagogical opportunities, that will be required to keep the “digital natives” of the future engaged in the classroom. No longer will chalk and talk cut it.
Without sounding to much like a conspiracy theorist, Abbott’s unwillingness to recognise this reeks of a governement which would prefere its constituents uneducated. After all it was only last year that Hockey stated on insight, that they would not waste money on education. An uneducated population is much easier to control, much easier to convince on policy decissions like work choices. Luckily we were educated enough to realise that every time they spoke about being competitive with asia, it meant that anyone working in a manufacturing industry would have to effectively work for $2US/ day. On the other hand an educated population can compete by being a ’smart economy’ that profits from innovation. Again the NBN will be a valuable tool in educating the population towards this scenario.

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