A city where everything is for sale except the beer and the women, both of which one merely rents.

Sounds like he had a few too many beers

Gungahlin Al said :

On everything for sale, I see that DEEWR now has advertising panels installed in the foyer and lift areas of several of its city buildings. What prat felt a government department needs to make some money out of continuing the advertising assault even in your workplace? Before we know it the office will look more like an airport terminal with an ad behind every damn door. What next Transact screensavers on our bloody computers? McDonalds behind the toilet door?

One thing I miss since leaving Defence is the back of the toilet door. It had an officially produced colour wee-chart so you could tell if you were dehydrated.

I think the title of this post is a Pratchettism. Although I’ve never seen much similarity between Ankh-Morpork and Canberra except the quality of the major waterway.

busgirl said :

I guess TransACT is a better choice than Tobin Brothers…

I know I should’t have, but I LOLED 🙂

Surely someone standing out the front of the AWM blowing the last post isn’t too expensive.

On everything for sale, I see that DEEWR now has advertising panels installed in the foyer and lift areas of several of its city buildings. What prat felt a government department needs to make some money out of continuing the advertising assault even in your workplace? Before we know it the office will look more like an airport terminal with an ad behind every damn door. What next Transact screensavers on our bloody computers? McDonalds behind the toilet door?
If departments needs more money, they should look at savings. Start by overhauling lighting systems and computer setups to overcome all the people who somehow think that 30 seconds of their time in the morning is worth running their computer all weekend and night.

I guess TransACT is a better choice than Tobin Brothers…

Sounds fair enough to me, the federal government are too busy putting budget cuts through the institutions that can least afford it. I expect Questacon and the CSIRO to have to resort to similar lengths to support their operations too soon enough. Good on Transact for offering the support too.

What an astonishing surprise though that one of the first things to go in budget cuts is something with such a high public profile! Public service management 101 in action again – respond to budget cuts by cutting the popular things and hope the outcry causes the politicians to back down and increase funding.

The minister should suggest to managers who do this that he has a budget cut for them – their job.

I don’t know how anyone could be critical of not just Canberra’s, but one of Australia’s best tourist attractions. Good on TransACT for helping them out.

johnboy said:“At the going down of the sun and in the morning. We will remember TransACT’s community support and competitive telecommunication pricing”.

. . . not to mention the fact they can’t even provide a reliable service. Their Internet service was down for three and a half hours this morning.