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The Australia 2020 Summit framework has lumped discussions of our internet and broadband infrastructure in with “the economy”. Since I’m supposedly a geek of some sort, I felt compelled to write a submission for this topic area as well.

While it’s technically outside the brief of this website, here it is anyway…

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Some famous bloke once apologised for writing a long letter because he didn’t have time to write a short one. That’s how I felt yesterday while writing a submission for the Australia 2020 Summit.

For various reasons I didn’t have much time available. Yet I’ve said so much about still believing this to be an important summit — despite the plentiful shortcomings — that I felt obliged to write something. In 500 words or less.

Given that I didn’t have time for a well-researched, pithy submission, I chose to write from the heart. This is what emerged…

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