International Law

The difficulties of governing

According to Malcolm Farr, the new Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy, is finding the business of government harder than perhaps he thought:

NOW that the symbols, some of them clangers, have left the political stage the Federal Government is confronting the less pleasant aspects of implementing power.

And it is encountering difficulties which threaten to see it indicted for having promised the Earth but delivering sod-all.

Last week at a Sydney conference, Broadband and Beyond, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy let loose his frustrations.

He tossed aside his prepared speech and instead told stunned conference attendees how working with the Department of Communications was like a daily episode of

Yes Minister. He told of public servants refusing to provide material he had requested, and suggesting he get his own legal advice if he wanted to challenge their position.

Read more here (from News.com.au).

(Hat tip: Trevor Cook.)

Full post as published by Freedom to Differ on March 10, 2008 (boomark / email).