"The Rapid Decline of Public Ethos"
A book about governing a democracy in the digital era.
Do you know who really governs broadband policies in Australia?
Have you wondered why Australians have been publicly arguing in the media and within its federal parliament about broadband for over a decade?
The public finances the Australian federal parliament, and from the invention of democracy, the public expects its parliament to be the highest governing authority. But is it?
The public expects its elected government to guide Australians for optimum social and economic outcomes. But does it?
The public would expect Australia's government, a foundation member of the United Nations to support the United Nations democratic objectives. Find out why and how Australia's public representatives do not.
The public expects democratic governments to be transparent. Find out why and how instead, it conceals its commitment to private market forces and economists reform propositions from public understanding.
Do you remember the national digital superhighway that Australia built during the early nineties?
Do you know that this was the first in the world public civil engineering project for a digital superhighway?
Do you know why this Telstra public superhighway was converted to an exclusive Telstra service to Foxtel?
Read "The Rapid Decline of Public Ethos" and understand why and how.
See the bottom of this page to find out how you can purchase this book of public enlightenment about public affairs in Australia.
While Australia argues, the world sciences are advancing in leaps and bounds, now building 10's of Gbts broadband telecommunications services to homes to replace copper wires!
Are you also one who is kept unaware, as another of the many steadily excluded from access to knowledge about public affairs, steadily excluded from understanding and excluded from involvement in public affairs except as a compulsory voter at election times?
If private market forces can achieve private governing authority over Australians broadband, and over Australians Security Exchange, are they also using the economists propositions to privately govern over "carbon trading" as they did with with "water trading" and "Telstra privatisation"?
Learn how economists propositions socially and economically exploit Australians and how this was achieved with the public's $64 Billion Telstra and its revolutionary broadband! Learn more in this book, about the consequences after the Australian government adopted policies as based on economists assumptions and advice!
Learn who is really governing the Australia economy and how they achieved this governing authority!
Like carbon trading, learn how money values, the value of Telstra was based on public perceptions, based on media propaganda, money values without any publicly transparent measurable values behind the public's perceived value of market capital. Learn why it is a major stimulous to the ever widening social gap, the digital divide.
Learn how these processes were enacted by market forces for the privatisation of Telstra!
As revolutionary projects take time to develop, to be publicly accepted and to be financed and implemented, you may be too young to remember. Telstra's broadband was a major advance in civil engineering preceded by public education to intellectual Australians in numbers sufficient to resource the build and operation of the world's first national FTTN public telecommunications infrastructure. The Australian public financed this venture to prepare Australians for their entry into the digital era, an era with intellectual diversity and flexibility like never before!
Why has Australia now aborted related public education about digital telecommunications? Why was this revolutionary opportunity abandoned by the Howard government and privatised? This book explains why.
Yes, this once public Gbts per second broadband, was rolled out over a decade ago and does exist. It is real! Although from the decade of public arguments within Australia, about broadband, you would never know! Australia does have the world's first national Gbt per second broadband!
This raises another serious question. Who is managing the intellectual capacity of Australia if Australians are unaware of their once Gbts per second telecommunications broadband that was built over a decade ago? But there is also another even far more serious political question behind the Telstra Gbts broadband, a $64 Billion story not yet publicly told! It is told in detail within this book, "The Rapid Decline of Public Ethos".
It explains that with a Rudd government, with democratic intervention and public good will, and with the objective of government transparency, almost all Australians connected to a Telstra telephone could have tens of Gbts per second national broadband service within two or three years from now and at little or no costs to the Australian public.
Learn how Foxtel set top boxes lock out competition and lock in customers and suppliers, and alarmingly, even free to air TV locked into their proprietary schemes, bundled into Foxtel for private control and exploitation via the once public superhighway, the Telstra cable! Learn how this duplication and triplication of services have amplified the waste and costs to the Australia public. Learn how these processes by the adoption of economists driven policies as promoted by private market forces are in direct opposition to democracy, open markets and fair trade!
Learn why in Australia while CSIRO has the responsibility for Australian W3C web site standards, this international standardisation and "Australian Standards" for the digitak superhighways do not align with international public standardisation even though Australia was the world leader in broadband. Learn how economists reform policies misdirect government policies with severe adverse consequences.
Rapid Decline of Public Ethos
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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