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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. 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...