Howard's spin doctors turn to Telstra

From
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...013871,00.html

JOHN Howard's former No 2 spin doctor, David Luff, has taken a highly paid
position with Telstra, the company his old boss used to loathe.

Mr Luff will be spruiking the benefits of Telstra winning a contract worth
up to $30 billion -- $4.7 billion of it in taxpayer funds -- for a new
national broadband network.

He will also be arguing that Telstra should be neither split nor forced to
undergo any further internal separation to make its operations more
transparent.

But only nine months ago, Mr Luff was working for a government keen to see
Telstra cut its prices to competitors to encourage competition in the $34
billion a year telcommunications sector. Not to mention handing over a
$1billion regional broadband contract to Optus.

Telstra caused no end of problems for Mr Howard and his government.

After Sol Trujillo was hired from the US to run the company, he launched a
war against government regulations and brought the relationship with
Telstra's then-major shareholder, the federal government, to an all-time
low.

Mr Luff's ultimate boss at Telstra will be his former colleague David
Quilty, who less than three years ago was a senior cabinet adviser to Mr
Howard and yesterday stepped up to the role as Telstra's public policy and
communications supremo.

Day to day, Mr Luff will report to Andrew Butcher, a former public relations
executive with Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in New York.

Mr Butcher was last month appointed to head an expanded media relations role
at Telstra in a widespread shake-up of the telco's corporate affairs group
pushed through ahead of the departure of Mr Quilty's predecessor, Phil
Burgess.

"David is a great bloke who has impeccable relations with journalists," Mr
Butcher said.

Mr Luff has been filing a regular column for The Sunday Telegraph, which is
owned by The Australian's publisher, News Limited. He is a former journalist
with The Daily Telegraph.

While Telstra's public relations team is littered with former Liberal Party
staffers, the company has also retained Labor-linked public relations
consultancy Hawker Britten to help sell its broadband message.

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Alan Poxington <[email protected]> wrote

> From
> http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...013871,00.html

Just another of Murdoch's **** rags.

> JOHN Howard's former No 2 spin doctor, David Luff, has taken a highly
> paid position with Telstra, the company his old boss used to loathe.

He doesnt get a lot of choice once he got the bums rush.

> Mr Luff will be spruiking the benefits of Telstra winning a contract worth up to $30 billion -- $4.7 billion of it in
> taxpayer funds -- for a new national broadband network.

And no one will buy his bull****, any more than they bought his bull**** in the most recent election.

> He will also be arguing that Telstra should be neither split nor
> forced to undergo any further internal separation to make its
> operations more transparent.

And no one will buy his bull****, any more than they bought his bull**** in the most recent election.

> But only nine months ago, Mr Luff was working for a government keen
> to see Telstra cut its prices to competitors to encourage competition
> in the $34 billion a year telcommunications sector. Not to mention
> handing over a $1billion regional broadband contract to Optus.

And no one will buy his bull****, any more than they bought his bull**** in the most recent election.

> Telstra caused no end of problems for Mr Howard and his government.

Just another of your pathetic little drug crazed pig ignorant fantasys.

> After Sol Trujillo was hired from the US to run the company,

He couldnt run a pissup in a brewery and has driven every operation
that was ever stupid enough to employ him into the ground and ended
up in some completely irrelevant telco based in the arsehole of australia.

> he launched a war against government regulations

And didnt get even a single one of those changed. Funny that.

> and brought the relationship with Telstra's then-major shareholder, the federal government, to an all-time low.

And is about to piss off back where he came from
now that the nigger is one of the US candidates.

> Mr Luff's ultimate boss at Telstra will be his former colleague David Quilty, who less than three years ago was a
> senior cabinet adviser to Mr Howard

Funny that. Obviously his bum chum.

> and yesterday stepped up to the role as Telstra's public policy and communications supremo.

Once the hippo got the bums rush back where he came from.

Pity it took McGauchie so long to actually get a clue.

> Day to day, Mr Luff will report to Andrew Butcher, a former public relations executive with Rupert Murdoch's News
> Corporation in New York.

> Mr Butcher was last month appointed to head an expanded media relations role at Telstra in a widespread shake-up of
> the telco's corporate affairs group pushed through ahead of the departure of Mr Quilty's predecessor, Phil Burgess.

Otherwise known as the hippo.

> "David is a great bloke who has impeccable relations with journalists," Mr Butcher said.

Because he sucks their dicks.

> Mr Luff has been filing a regular column for The Sunday Telegraph,
> which is owned by The Australian's publisher, News Limited. He is a former journalist with The Daily Telegraph.

And got the bums rush from the Libs when no one bought his mindless bull**** in the recent election.

> While Telstra's public relations team is littered with former Liberal Party staffers,

Because they all got the bums rush when no one bought their mindless bull**** in the recent election.

> the company has also retained Labor-linked public relations consultancy Hawker Britten to help sell its broadband
> message.

Fat lot of good that will do them. They aint gunna get it, you watch.