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I doubt it somehow. Like Ben Barren, I can’t imagine that last weekend’s Andrew Olle Media Lecture 2006 is Minister Coonan’s (the Australian Communications Minister, a Cabinet-level post) original work. She focuses on emergent issues in blogging and collaborative media as a legitimate alternative to the old media forms.

It’s very good stuff, and touches on a fair swag of major issues in the Web/Business/Enterprise 2.0 space as affected by blogging and blog journalism. But it’s not her expertise domain.

She’s an order of magnitude smarter than Richard Alston, the previous incumbent, but this was obviously written by someone with their finger on the pulse. I can only hope that she paid attention to her writer and is getting her mind across the issues. If we have a Minister who’s wise to these matters, I have some hope for our nation as far as the Internet and related matters are concerned. That said, I don’t hold out a great deal of hope, particularly after she pretty much dropped the ball on broadband last week when challenged by the ABC over Rupert Murdoch’s criticism of the state of broadband in Australia.