Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "Sky News Australia" channel.

  1. She handled the questions well. But it is well to remember that there used to be a global standard referred in the industry as "five nines". It meant that telecomms networks should be configured so that the average customer has an ability to make calls etc 99.999% of the time. That allows only about 5 minutes average of outages per year. Phone companies in advanced western countries used to meet that specification - including Telecom Australia (now known as Telstra). Today the focus is on phone companies saving money and not on service quality.
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  2. Why are Telstra's latest job cuts news? They have been making large numbers redundant each year for 40 years. Back when they were run by Moron Mackinnon and Wasteful Ward, they decided they were a retail store and not a technology company, So they saw no value in technology experts, and got rid of all their engineers by 20 years ago..
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  3. The British didn't do anything to protect us. When the then Australian PM ordered General Blamey and his troops home to defend Australia from the Japanese, British PM Churchill and his British Army generals regarded us as traitors. Churchill was fully committed to the War in Europe and never cared a fig what happened in our side of the world. The British merely saw us as a source of cannon fodder, same as they did when they sent our boys to Gallipoli in WW1. We lost 10% of our Army because it was based in Singapore when Singapore fell to the Japanese, which happened because the British General in charge of Singapore was an incompetent fool, which Churchill knew, and because Churchill ignored warnings that the Japanese were coming. The British did, however, send some loudspeaker vans to Australia, equipped with a recorded announcement, so the police could race around the suburbs, blaring out:- "The Japanese have landed. Stay in your homes. Keep calm. The Japanese have landed ....." That's why our government turned to the USA for help - and they did help.
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  4.  @swaaahtome  Actually, Australia would be a French state - a sort of big New Caledonia. The reason why Britain sent a fleet to colonise Australia at the particular time was to beat the French to it, and they only just did it in time. The French ship L'Astrolabe, turned up a few days after the British arrival, hung around a while and then left. The French however were worse colonisers than the British. But .... The British actually held back Australia's development in the 1930's to 1950's, as they wanted Australia to buy manufactured goods from factories in England in exchange for wool and food. While Australia was officially a sovereign country since 1901, finance was controlled by the Bank of England, and funds for, for example, exploiting the iron ore were not available. During the Depression, Australia with its natural resources should have been largely insulated from it, but suffered badly because the British called in government loans in order to prop up Britain. Would France have done the same thing? Perhaps. Perhaps not. Disclaimer: I was born in Australia but my mother emigrated here from England. So if Australia was never a British dominion, I would not exist. I'm kind of pleased that I do exist.
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  5. This report sounds a bit sus to me. Some chap nobody has heard of before prattling on with out playing any more than 2 seconds of garbled transmission, no transcript or translation, it could be anything from anywhere.
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