blog You could be forgiven for thinking that Australian politics is currently about marriage equality. That’s true — it is about that in large part — but there are also other issues going on, such as the continued push to grow Australia’s startup sector to epic proportions. Last night, while Coalition MPs debated marriage equality in a small room in Parliament House for six hours straight, tech-focused Labor MPs Jason Clare and Ed Husic flew to Melbourne and were partying on, Silicon Valley-style:
The event appears to have been held by the Melbourne Accelerator Program at the University of Melbourne. Some further pics emerged from what looks like a great night emerged in the cold light of this morning:
Tonite and every nite courtesy of all things creatively destructive @MAPUniMelb @ibmdesign @KurtSolarte @teknover pic.twitter.com/Oar8CtPjQS
— David Mast (@dgmast) August 11, 2015
Former Victorian Premier (also Labor) John Brumby was also there:
Great evening @MAPUniMelb gala entrepreneurs event! Excited about melbourne and the talent! pic.twitter.com/qMPvP4K3Gv
— Lorraine Tighe (@LorrTighe) August 11, 2015
Prof @GlynDavisVC at the #melbgala @MAPUniMelb @unimelb pic.twitter.com/OaWTUH32rt
— CarltonConnect (@Carlton_Connect) August 11, 2015
And Husic even appeared to be doing a spot of Periscoping at the event. Nice!
Of course, Labor hasn’t yet really articulated yet what its actual policy is with regard to boosting Australia’s technology sector. But I guess we’ll leave that to the election. For now, it’s at least good that the party is spending a great deal of time engaging with the sector.
Top image credit: Appears to be Office of Jason Clare
This is the Labor Party of eavesdropping, blacklists, net censorship, and mandatory data retention, yeah? Because all those things are gonna be so good for Australia’s technology sector.
Fuck ’em.
Political parties are complex — they can have both good and bad policies simultaneously ;)
Even the current one?
You probably missed out that Tony Abbott visited river city lab last month
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjJshABF7mE
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