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Competition To Find Aussie PM's Email Address

Posted by timothy on from the why-not-ask-some-spammers dept.

Internet Ninja writes "While we can all send anti-war emails to 'president' of the USA and even the Australian opposition, nobody can email the Prime Minister of Australia. So the opposition party started a competition to track it down as reported in Australias Sydney Morning Herald."

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  1. publicity stunt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    this is a pretty funny publicity stunt.

    as the labor party is well aware, federal politician's email addresses are pseudonyms and changed quickly if they fall into the 'wrong hands'.

    furthermore all senior federal politicians have access to the other email addresses, so the labor party already has johnny's email address.

  2. Re:Is It Just Me... by alister · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Mate.

    I hope you're not suggesting that:

    a) Australians can't be nerds or geeks
    b) that finding little Johnny's email address isn't a valid exercise for said nerds and geeks

    Maybe there are just a lot of us around. And, after all, where does Samba come from?

    Alister

  3. Re:Australians reaping what they sowed by Tyreth · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The difference is Australians don't pretend that they are some Righteous God-Fearing nation that is the Light of the World, and represents the Forces of Good against the hordes of evil.

    Australians have no problem (well, I don't) in admitting their faults, and have no motivation to pretend that they are holy or righteous when in fact they aren't.

  4. You are wrong by Cpt_Corelli · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why email Saddam Hussein? If you have followed recent news you will find that it is the US that is about to invade Iraq, not the other way around.

    I bet that the coming US invasion of Iraq will end up in this list pretty soon...

  5. Try pm@pm.gov.au by Skevos+Mavros · · Score: 5, Insightful

    j.howard.mp@aph.gov.au might be the correct address, but I would guess it just forwards to whoever is looking after whatever Mr Howard's portfolio was at that time (you didn't give a date to the usenet posting).

    A little birdy told me (I briefly worked in the Australian Federal Public Service a long time ago, and I have a few friends that still do) to try pm@pm.gov.au instead. Though I'm betting it forwards to the same place that web site form seems to go to - webmaster@pm.gov.au.

    Anyway, I don't really see the point of this "competition", even from a publicity stunt point of view. No one REALLY thinks that the Australian PM (or the US President or the French President etc) sits at his desk each morning, opens up Outlook/KMail/whatever and checks his incoming email, do they?

    Maybe they think the PM opens all his own mail too. And that he really does write every word of every document that has his signature on it...