Alan Parkington <patriot@iheartaustralia.com.au> wrote:
> From
> http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sto...-36281,00.html
> Terry McCrann
Who aint called Tewwy McCrap for nuffin...
> May 01, 2008 12:00am
> GOODBYE Dr Phil. Hello Philip M. Burgess.
Wota fucking wanker.
> The latter gave an interesting speech to Allan Fels's Australia and New Zealand School of Government yesterday.
Thanks for that completely superfluous proof of why you've always been called Tewwy McCrap.
> Actually a lecture, in the formal, not colloquial, sense of the word.
Wota fucking wanker...
> For while it was certainly robust and substantive, there was none of
> the hectoring, even bullying style we have come to learn and love, and
> metaphorically duck from, in the 34 months Dr Phil has been Down Under.
Because McGauchie has given him a boot in the arse, yet again.
> That length of time is in itself interesting, as in referring to it,
> Burgess - who is of course, group managing director, public policy and communications at Telstra; more simply, chief
> head-kicker
Chief wanker, actually.
> (of two in particular)
Only in your pathetic little pig ignorant fantasyland.
Its his head thats been kicked all around the countryside, time after time after time.
> - said he arrived in July 2005 "expecting to stay only a month or perhaps two at the outside".
And then he discovered that the US authoritys would let him return due to his criminal activity.
> Well, how wrong was that expectation - and the probably 'well-informed' predictions of journalists back then, who
> echoed that time-frame.
> Burgess doesn't look like going anywhere, any time soon.
Yeah, no one is actually stupid enough to have him.
> Burgess's lecture yesterday projected his perspective of the different cultures of business and government.
Something he knows absolutely NOTHING about.
> Principally in generic terms, but with very specific individual examples.
> And by drawing on the differences as he saw it between the US and Australia.
> It is impossible to cover the substance of what he said in a short comment.
Wota fucking wanker...
> Presumably if you are interested, you can find it on the Telstra website.
I've got plenty to wipe my arse with.
> As I wrote above, it was robust: he made very strong statements.
Nope, just wanked himself completely blind, as always.
> But strong statements informed by a deep knowledge and understanding of both political and business dynamics.
Only in your pathetic little drug crazed fantasyland.
> Including in and of Australia.
Only in your pathetic little drug crazed fantasyland.
> At the same time, with finely nuanced distinctions about structures, processes and influences.
Wota fucking wanker...
> What was especially impressive was that Burgess delivered an
> extremely rare, even unique 'outsider's' view and interpretation of Australia. That actually 'knew' the subject.
Only in your pathetic little drug crazed fantasyland.
He's so fucking stupid that he hasnt even noticed how completely offside
he has got every govt that he's ever had anything to do with, fuckwit.
> The 'problem' with most - all? - such observations is that they are either filtered through a foreign lens or based on
> significant ignorance of Australia, or mostly both.
Burgess' shit in spades.
> Thus his comments didn't only provide an idiosyncratic interpretation of the interplay between business and
> government - and the bureaucracy - in Australia.
> But observations about the formulation of good public policy that were fresher, more interesting, and more substantive
> than anything seen at Kevin Rudd's 'ideas' summit.
Only in your pathetic little drug crazed fantasyland.
> Now it mostly wasn't 'party political'. That's to say it provided penetrating insights into the drivers and dynamics
> of business and government.
Only in your pathetic little drug crazed fantasyland.
> Even if you didn't have to necessarily agree with his observations and interpretations.
> This Philip did, though, reserve his closing comments for
> "telecommunications regulation in the political culture of Australia'.
Yawn...
> In the process sounding eerily like the Dr Phil who bashes the ACCC and its chairman Graeme Samuel seemingly daily.
So much for your stupid claims above.
> Fair enough, you'd have to say. It was entirely in context, an obvious working example of his theme. Doesn't mean he's
> right, even in his own terms.
Wota fucking wanker...
> That's why his closing comments were penetratingly apposite.
Only in your pathetic little drug crazed fantasyland.
> That's why "business leaders and others who speak for civil society" must stand up and be counted.
Only in your pathetic little drug crazed fantasyland.
> That public policy was not just about government.
> Nor, I might add, just about broadband.
Wota fucking wanker...