Paul Bongiorno
speaker
323 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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I mean, they're looking for support from Australia and they're getting it.
It's really interesting.
India is, of course, the largest democracy in the world, but people forget that India was always, during the Cold War, non-aligned and even now takes a more non-aligned stance and, for example, does not share Australia's view of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
So there is this, in a sense, almost a disconnect.
However, we can't ignore India for several reasons.
One is because it's such a huge place and an emerging major economy, but there is also now a very big people-to-people connection between India and Australia, with the Indian diaspora getting close to overtaking the Chinese diaspora, with something close to a million Indians now making Australia home.
In fact, while Modi was in Melbourne this week, he held a big rally in Marvel Stadium where he addressed them, not in English, Pauline Hanson, but in Hindi.
Well, it certainly is, but I suspect that horse has bolted.
But you'd have to say, what's going on?
I mean, a lot of people went back to Telstra after the Optus situation and Vodafone had earlier issues that seemed to have sorted them all out.
But I think the government is certainly on notice after this Telstra outage that it has to be seen to be taking this...
very seriously indeed.
Now, there is no doubt that the opposition, particularly Sarah Henderson, the shadow minister in this area of communications, was quick and rushed to politicise it.
But you know that even when a strident critic like Henderson speaks out, and maybe she shouldn't have made...
Her own test calls to triple zero.
In fact, there's a suggestion she might have broken the law in doing it.
She has, I think, pinpointed a real and urgent crisis that needs to be addressed by the government.
Good on you, Daniel.
Bye.
Well, I can tell you that the conservatives in the Liberal Party certainly believe he is and certainly have reached out to him.
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