Remember before the election when all those Labor politicians joined MySpace and declared how ‘in touch’ they were with Australian youth. Each no doubt reveled in delight every time a 14 year old girl with purple hair added them as a friend.
Some of those fine pollies even responded to people’s questions. It was a direct line to the ALP and even Senator Conroy took full advantage of it. He must have been spending hours each day fielding questions (and shooting self-portraits). If you had a question about his mandatory filtering plan, MySpace was the place to get it answered. But that didn’t last for long.
Senator Conroy hasn’t signed into his MySpace account since December 21st — the exact same date he announced new age-restricted Internet and mobile content rules, and days before he confirmed Labor’s intent to filter the Internet.
I expect Mr Conroy’s MySpace inbox got a little crowded and the comments people tried to add to his profile page — well they weren’t so nice anymore.
As for other ALP members, here’s when they last signed in to their MySpace account:
Politician | Last sign in |
---|---|
Maxine McKew | 4/09/2007 |
Nicola Roxon | 4/09/2007 |
Julia Gillard | 27/11/2007 |
Arch Bevis | 19/12/2007 |
Stephen Conroy | 21/12/2007 |
Greg Combet | 10/01/2008 |
Kevin Rudd | 12/01/2008 |
Tanya Plibersek | 18/01/2008 |
Peter Garrett | 25/01/2008 |
Robert McClelland | 28/01/2008 |
Anna Burke | 5/02/2008 |
Kate Ellis | 8/02/2008 |
Warren Snowdon | 11/02/2008 |
Catherine King | 20/02/2008 |
Wayne Swan | 28/02/2008 |
Sharon Griersom | 5/03/2008 |
Chris Bowen | 6/03/2008 |
Mark Furner | 10/03/2008 |
Dick Adams | 11/03/2008 |
Bob McMullan | 11/03/2008 |
Sharon Bird | 11/03/2008 |
I better add those three as friends.
– Mike