Email intuition
Mr T.G. STEPHENS: Leaving aside the 3 000-odd e-mails I have received - I could not find in the e-mail river any from people within my electorate. I have been scanning through them as best I can. By and large, I believe they are not people from my electorate who are involved in this electronic campaign.
Mr M.W. Trenorden: What average of those people would e-mail you and me?
Mr T.G. STEPHENS: I do not mind people doing it.
Mr M.W. Trenorden: It collapses my whole office.
Mr T.G. STEPHENS: I do not mind.
Mr M.W. Trenorden: I’ve got one electorate to look after.
The ACTING SPEAKER: Order, members!
Mr T.G. STEPHENS: It is a historic thing; it is unprecedented campaigning in my experience of this place. In 25 years in Parliament I have never seen us experiencing this type of electronic campaign which -
Mr G. Woodhams: Intimidation.
Mr T.G. STEPHENS: No, no, it is not intimidation.
Mr G. Woodhams: Soft-headed modernism!
Mr T.G. STEPHENS: Welcome to the modern world, member! Expect more of it and in big numbers. If anything, those people who are organising our Internet system will need to devise methods for us to conduct electronic business while simultaneously having the opportunity, off to the side, to receive this type of lobbying. I expect we will get more of it.
Mr M.W. Trenorden: Just dump it. Hit the dump button.
Mr T.G. STEPHENS: That is 3 000 hit buttons to get that dump button. There is another way of doing it and most members have worked out how to do it. One puts it across into a discrete area of one’s e-mail. One can see it there growing and every now and then when one wants to have a look, one can do so.
Mr M.J. Birney: You can also do something crazy like read them! How do you know if they are from your electorate if you do not read them?
Several members interjected.
The ACTING SPEAKER: Order, members!
Mr T.G. STEPHENS: I think I have been digressed!
Subject: Daylight Saving Bill (no. 2) 2006 [Legislative Assembly - Standing Orders -- Suspension]
Date: 31 October 2006
Hansard reference: pp. 7886b - 7952a [online (pdf)]
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