Anna for illiteracy?
Posted February 15th, 2009 by debritz
Oh, please! Queensland Premier Anna Bligh's new website is called anna4qld.com.au. I suppose somebody in her camp thinks it's "hip" to use SMS slang, but it's hardly setting a good example. Perhaps she'll release her education policy in the form of a rap song.
PS: Apparently, the site wasn't even developed in Queensland.
Actually, Anna doesn't even really have confidence in Australian web professionals at all: one Holly Perkins from San Fransisco was imported by Ogilvy's ( giant multinational PR/advertsing firm) for the job. She claims it on her blog migrainesandmortgages.blogspot.com. How's this for chutzpah?
"Mostly, work is work. You get a client, you figure out what they want, you launch a website, and life goes on. Saturday night, I launched the website for the Premier of Queensland, Anna Bligh. In my mind, I thought, it is a nice site, but nothing that is going to get a lot of press or praise or fame. I was mostly excited because it was my first ".au" website launch. Boy, was I wrong. Most of Queensland seems to be in an uproar that Anna hired Sydney and Melbourne-based companies to build her website while simultaneously saying she is all about Jobs of Queensland. Here are some of the articles:"
Including yours you'll be pleased to know. Her blog can be commented on, you should nip over an thank her.
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25060715-952,00.html
So... did they ask you for your thoughts, or simply lift the quote from your blog as it looks they did? Hmm...
Trying to teach my grandchildren correct pronounciation is not helped by our Premier Anna Bligh who refers to water as "wader".
Sadly she is not alone.
But she is in charge of education in our state.