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"The Rapid Decline of Public Ethos"

- For the attention of all Australians - What happened to Australia's 2 Gbts per second public broadband that was operational, nationally by 1995?

Learn how false teaching from economists converted Australians from being intellectual leaders in an innovative digital world into abused followers and losers.

This book is a study for Australians to understand, for the world to understand, the serious consequences after public assets are committed to privatisation.

"The Rapid Decline of Public Ethos" is a publication as referenced within the 500 word submission to Prime Minister Rudd's 2020 Conference in Canberra, April 19th - 20th, 2008.

This book explains the rapid decline of political transparency over the last decade.

This book explains how and why scientific intellectuals are excluded from economic reform policy commitments.

It explains how and why the Howard government aborted the revolutionary opportunities for the Australian public, emanating from the exponential expansion of new sciences and technologies.

This book explains what happened in Australia after it had, in 1995, built the world first nation public Gbts per second broadband.

This book explains how public objectives for Australia's entry into the digital era have been corrupted.

It explains how intellectuals are excluded from the evaluations propositioned by economists to governments for deregulations and privatisation.

It explains why government commitments to economic reforms of deregulation and privatisation re public affairs have created serious consequences against new opportunities for Australia's trade and commerce.

It explains why these propositions are undemocratic processes and how the public is excluded from understanding and reasoning why.

It explains how Telstra is proof of this new and undemocratic political process.

This book offers a proposal for the earliest repair to Telstra at little or no cost to the public. It explains why this repair is extremely critical to Australians social and economic nation-building objectives.

It explains how and why privatisation of publicly shared assets is a serious threat against democractic process and against its continual improvement.

Do you know that a decade ago the Australian public owned and operated the most advanced telecommunications infrastructure in the world, Telstra, as a national public Gbt ps (Gigabits per second to homes) digital broadband and telecommunications service?

Do you know that the Sydney Olympics 2000 games could have been broadcast to near 4 million Australian homes over the Telstra telecommunications infrastructure as a show case to the world?

An introduction to public ethos

Do you know that Telstra is now a digital Gbts per second telecommunications broadband transport service to Foxtel and distributes, nationally, near a hundred Foxtel television programs to homes, at the same time, an electronic engineering achievement that no other nation has yet accomplished over its telecommunications network?

Do you know that Australian students and the Australian public are no longer publicly educated to understand and to reason why the Telstra broadband telecommunication services must operate to related international digital standards if all Australians are to have open access to the world entry into the revolutionary digital era?

Do you know that Australians were once world leaders in the sciences and engineering for the build and management of a revolutionary broadband, the backbone of the Australian telecommunications services, Australians superhighway? Have you not wondered why people from USA without any experience with a national broadband infrastructure (as USA does not yet have a national Fibre to the Node, (FTTN) public fibre cable infrastructure) at extreme public expense, replaced Australians?

Do you know that the Australian public has been the major loser and that the commercial media oligopolies, the minority shareholders in Foxtel are by far the major winners from the privatisation of the Telstra public Gbt digital telecommunications broadband.

Do you know that the Telstra digital telecommunications infrastructure is ready for conversion at any time, with little or no costs to the public, to upgrade to a total optical fibre infrastucture to most Australian homes? (FTTP)?

This book is for everyone that did not know!

This will provide you with the answers. It outlines the social, industrial and commercial opportunities within the digital era. It explains why information and the exponential expansion of intellectual values should be a publicly controlled process, not a process controlled by private market forces. It explains why and how the Howard government commitment to privatise Australian's national telecommunications infrastructure and its revolutionary Gbts broadband is a serious threat to democracy.

It outlines why a public electronic transport service to support Australian trade and commerce, to educate Australians for their participation in the digital industrial revolution is an extremely critical and strategic priority for all Australians.

Rapid Decline of Public Ethos

The author of this book was a member of the management team responsible for Philips Broadband Telecommunications that won the Telstra $2.3 Billion engineering and supply contract in 1993, for the Telstra build of a national optical fibre cable terminated by high frequency cable broadband to the home as the world's first FTTN Gbt per second public telecommunications infrastructure. The contract was stage one of a two stage civil engineering program, with the objective for the total removal of telephone wires and telephone exchanges planned then to be replaced by optical fibre connected to almost all homes and offices after year 2006. Stage one was completed well before year 2000 but has not yet been commissioned as a public service.

150 pages A5 size, 12 charts and 6 quarter page colour plates, first published, April 2008. RRP is $29.95. Order via your local book store quoting ISBN 978-0-9804923-0-9 or order direct from the publisher. Price includes postage and handling to postal addresses in Australia. To overseas addresses $35.

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Thanks for your interest to this extremely serious and sadly neglected issue.