Hitler being appointed the caretaker of a holocaust memorial museum.

Osama bin Laden put in charge of a construction team rebuilding the Twin Towers.

Kevin Rudd being asked to judge diving at the next Olympics, except for the backflip event.

All of these are horrifying absurd scenarios the world wouldn’t want to be confronted with anytime soon. However they’re nothing compared to the absolute nonsense that is Stephen Conroy recently being appointed to a United Nations Broadband Taskforce.

The International Telecommunications Union’s Broadband Commission for Digital Development’s key aim

is to accelerate attainment of those goals — and more — by the target date of 2015.


‘Those goals’ being the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Amongst other things, these goals aim to

deliver results for the billions of people struggling to meet their basic needs and to live in dignity and peace.


In a broadband sense I’m assuming they’re referring to internet access as being a basic need, which is far enough.

So the UN have created a broadband taskforce aimed at accelerating internet access around the world by a specific deadline, and they’ve gone and appointed Stephen Conroy to it.

Let’s have a look at Conroy’s credentials on accelerating the national rollout of internet access. Here’s Conroy in 2007;


Back in 2007 Stephen Conroy went on Australian television and told the public that he’d be connecting people by the end of 2008.

It’s almost mid 2010 now and to date not one person has been connected to the National Broadband network. Infact two and half years after Conroy and the Labor government were elected, the National Broadband Network doesn’t even exist yet. Not even on paper.

Recently the $25 million McKinsey study which investigated the viability of a National Broadband Network (yes the government is only now investigating the viability of the network after it was promised to us back in 2007), was finalised and made public.

In response Conroy has given Australia’s largest ISP, Telstra, till the end of June to decide if they want to be a part of it. After that who knows what’s next on the ‘stall for time’ National Broadband Network agenda.

The good news is that whenever the government does decide to actually put a plan into action, the network itself is estimated to take about eight years to build.

Living in Australia, do you remember what you’re internet was like eight years ago?

All up if we take Conroy’s 2007 National Broadband network promise to start connecting people by the end of 2008, assume the government starts building the network by the end of 2010 and whack 8 years of building time onto the equation, Australian’s will finally have a broadband network nine years overdue.

Meanwhile the guy in charge of this disaster, Senator Stephen Conroy has just been welcomed onto a taskforce designed to ‘accelerate‘ the rollout of internet access worldwide.

Seriously is the UN full of freaking morons or what?

When asked what he thought about his recent appointment, Conroy stated

“I look forward to sharing Australia’s experiences in developing our national broadband network as well as contributing to the work of the Commission.”


To date the only other achievement Stephen Conroy has had in regards to the internet is the announcement of a mandatory ISP internet censorship filter.

Yeah, I wonder how that’s going to go down at the UN when Conroy ‘contributes‘ it.

1. Stephen Conroy admits internet filter is useless
2. Stephen Conroy shows off his internet illiteracy
3. Stephen Conroy censors TV debate on internet filter
4. Australian mandatory internet filter delayed till 2013
5. The future of Australian internet under Stephen Conroy