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To: tech who wrote (2201)1/20/1998 2:06:00 PM
From: tech  Respond to of 3391
 
Australia: It's None of the Public's Business!__________________(news)


Link: afr.com.au


The Australian government is resisting public disclosure on the y2k status of
its agencies. The bureaucrats are doing what bureaucrats are trained and paid
to do: keep the voters' noses out of the bureaucrats' sovereign affairs.

This game will end in 2000. The armies of would-be sovereign bureaucrats will
be out of work. All over the world.

This is from the AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW (Jan. 20).

* * * * * * * *

The Australian Stock Exchange chairman, Mr Maurice Newman, said he would
like all private and public sector organisations to come clean about the
problem. . . .

Year 2000 Steering Committee activities are limited to the private sector but Mr
Newman said that a lack of information on government organisations could
delay any required help from the private sector.

However, a spokeswoman for the Minister of Finance and Administration, Mr
John Fahey, said there were no plans to release detailed reports on the year
2000 readiness, or otherwise, of the various government organisations. . . .

"The purpose of these reports is to alert Cabinet and ministers to the status of
individual departments. At this stage we don't see a requirement for public
disclosure," Mr Fahey's spokeswoman said.