Abbott to write book about politics

ABC Online

Federal Opposition frontbencher Tony Abbott is to write a book about the future of conservative politics in Australia.

Melbourne University Publishing has announced the book will be released next year.

It says it will explain Mr Abbott’s personal political faith, and where he would like to see Australia in 20 years’ time.

Mr Abbott was the federal health and ageing minister under the Howard government until the Coalition was voted out at last year’s federal election.

Greg’s comment:
I think we could have some fun with this.

Is this a hint that he is about to resign or is it a manifesto of how he will operate when he eventually takes over the Liberal Party?

I am looking for a new Internet provider.

For the last three years I have had a satellite service from Bordernet. I have been paying around $50/month for 1Gig downloads at 512Kbs.

Prior to that, I only had access to a dialup service, that because of degraded copper wires to the exchange, could not deliver more than 16kbs.

For the last two months, the satellite service has gone out of control reaching the 1 Gig download limit within fourteen days so for the rest of the month the download speed was dropped to 64Kbs.

In spite of only getting 1/8 the normal speed, the remining 17 days of the month clocked up another 1.5 GB. Impossible, I say!

I do not download videos – use chatrooms – iPod music or use peer to peer software. I run a blog and surf news stories. Occasionally, we log on to Picasso to download the latest photos of the grandchildren and yet I am recording up to 125 Mb of downloads a day with a service that takes up to two minutes to load a page.

I am using AVG virus protection along with Spybot-search and destroy. I also use the online scanning service of Microtrends and have found nothing out of the ordinary.

As you would, I phoned Bordernet and was fobbed off. I emailed a formal compaint and was told that I am responsible for the download figure and there could be no mistake. I asked for details of where these downloads came from and was told they have no access to that information. That’s utter Bull***t! If I was downloading child pornography, the authorities have shown there is no problem of tracing such activity.

Today, I explored alternate IPs. We still cannot get ADSL. We only have access to Satellite and Broadband wireless.

Optus have a great offer if you are in their wireless area – which we are not. For $89 month you get unlimited national calls via their 3G network together with their 3500Kbs wireless internet connection with 7Gigs of downloads.

Telstra, who currently provide us unlimited national calls on our landline for $89 month, have offered wireless connection at 256Kbs with 1 Gig downloads for $50 month. (half price for 12 months on a 36 month contract)

Now, in my condition, it would be irresponsible for me to take out a 36 month contract when I not likely to last that long. I asked what would happen if I died during the contract. The answer, of course, was that I would have to pay a penalty on the unused time of the contract. No doubt, the mongrels would sue a pensioner’s wife for the unpaid fees of her dead husband.

I am still looking for options. Do you have any suggestions?