Talk:Stephen Conroy

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[edit] Surrogate child

Conroy has been in the news in 2006 and 2007 for a personal issue: he and his wife commissioned a surrogate pregnancy, which is unusual in Australia. It's not directly relevant to his political career, but he seems to have chosen to make this public and therefore it would seem relevant to his article. Citations: [1] [2]. "Stephen Conroy surrogacy" turns up a lot of archival hits on Google News. Thayvian (talk) 22:52, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Supply references - Understanding youth

In relation to the text saying: "Whilst the the government (Labor party), projected an image of understanding the youth, technology and means of communicating, the filtering policy has been criticised as a waste of money and a failure to understand how these new means are utilised."....

I call that a reference be supplied or that the content be removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.1.223.103 (talk) 11:13, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

I've removed it. --Michael Billington (talk) 05:29, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

I want to reinstate. There are two separate premises in the statement. Firstly, "...projected an image of understanding youth, technology...". Evidence for this is the ALP use of Youtube, Facebook, Myspace etc during the 2007 campaign. Secondly, "..policy has been criticised". Evidence for this can be found in a number of forums participated in by Australian ISP representatives eg http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/934857.html. - CryRedMao —Preceding unsigned comment added by CryRedMao (talk • contribs) 22:57, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

What a waste of space. Whirlpool forums are not WP:RS, wikipedia is not a place for WP:SOAP, and the above is WP:OR. Timeshift (talk) 23:48, 20 May 2008 (UTC)