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"The Rapid Decline of Public Ethos".

A book about education and communications in the digital era.

Learn how, at the entry of Australia into the digital world, false teaching from economists converted Australians from being intellectual leaders in an innovative world into followers and losers in a competitve world.

Do you not wonder why Australian school students are supplied with free computers for school education and at the same time, are also denied open access to the most efficient tool for education and communications ever devised by human kind?

Do you not wonder why Australian school students are supplied with free computers and then to be left wide open to social and economic abuse from the World Wide Web?

Do you not wonder why this tool, Australia's Gbts per second broadband, a tool for revolutionary flexibility and diversity like never before, a special tool for public education, was instead permitted to become a privately controlled tool exclusively for commercial marketing of media, entertainment and advertising?

Do you not wonder why the Howard government would commit the worlds most effective tool to service the public's critical needs for communications and information to be privately controlled?

Do you not wonder after Telstra was the first in the world with a national Gbts per second broadband, Australia does not have public access, even for public education, to this national Gbts per second broadband telecommunications infrastucture, built and financed by Australians over a decade ago?

As described in the book, Telstra is a real world example how reform policies based on economists assumptions are threats to social justice and democracy, propositions that are widening the social gap, the digital divide.

It descibes how Australian commitments to its privatisation of telecommunications has globally stimulated the widening of this social and economic gap.

It explains why Telstra is in urgent need of social and economic repair!

An introduction.

This book explains how and why Australians have been denied open access to their revolutionary digital broadband superhighway, the 2 Gbts per second superhighway that Australians built for themselves in the early nineties.

The Rudd government commitment for school students to each have a computer has to be recommended.

However it is even more critical for all Australians to understand why, in the digital era, the public needs trustworthy democratic and transparent governments public standards and related education disciplined by the rule of law more than ever before.

Only after students understand why and how unscrupulous behaviour has been expelled from public telecommunications and the World Wide Web, should they be exposed to this privatised environment of encreasing social and economic abuse.

Only after a public undertaking by a trustworthy democratic government that understands why it must have a standardised national public telecommunications broadband infrastructure that can be publicly tested for conformance to standards and social behaviour, should students and its public be enforced to be exposed to this new environment.

This book explains why broadband telecommunications is critical to the survival of democracies that support open markets and fair trade.

This book is dedicated to the Australian scientists and engineers who positioned Australia at the cutting edge of the world's entry into the digital era. One day Australia will officially respect this fraternity for what it has achieved and for what it will achieve in the future.

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. Posted to overseas addresses $35.

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