Subject:	Australia: A Parable Of Non-Compliance
Date:	1999/06/16
Author:	Paul Milne <fedinfo@halifax.com>
	Posting History

The Victorian electricity supply industry, which is presently being scrutinised by a team of auditors from Britain hired by the Office of the Regulator-General, reported being behind schedule in all of its distribution, transmission and generator sectors.   Earlier this month, Victoria's largest distributor, Powercor, stated publicly that it could not guarantee electricity supply after the end of the year because it was unable to obtain Y2K assurances from its suppliers, including the suppliers of the generators themselves.   In spite of the damning statistics, however, the State Finance Minister, Mr Roger Hallam, continued to put a positive spin on the results of the latest report, claiming there had been a rise in overall readiness in the public sector from 92 per cent to 94 per cent.       Victoria languishing in Y2K `dark ages'   By Stan Beer The latest Y2K report from the Victorian Government continues to show that the majority of agencies, local government councils and utilities are lagging in their millennium bug preparations, despite government claims that most agencies will be compliant by June 30.   According to the monthly report released last week, as of June 9, 18 of 28 government departments, 86 of 170 agencies and 54 of 95 local councils reported themselves to be behind schedule in their Y2K programs. All three water, gas and electricity utility sectors also reported themselves to be behind schedule.   Particular areas of concern were the essential services sectors of the electricity supply industry, police and emergency services and health, in which most agencies were behind schedule in repairing their systems.   The Victorian electricity supply industry, which is presently being scrutinised by a team of auditors from Britain hired by the Office of the Regulator-General, reported being behind schedule in all of its distribution, transmission and generator sectors.   Earlier this month, Victoria's largest distributor, Powercor, stated publicly that it could not guarantee electricity supply after the end of the year because it was unable to obtain Y2K assurances from its suppliers, including the suppliers of the generators themselves.   In the police and emergency services sector, the Police, Fire & Emergency Services Operations and BEST communications network all reported being behind schedule in their Y2K repairs.   The police sector, which has recently outsourced its IT systems to IBM, is not expected to finish replacing its non-compliant desktop systems until near the end of the year.   Of the 31 health agencies, which include public hospitals, 21 of 31 agencies reported being behind schedule, including key hospital networks, such as Southern Health Care, Women's & Children's Health Care, St Vincents Hospital and Mercy Health & Age Care.   In spite of the damning statistics, however, the State Finance Minister, Mr Roger Hallam, continued to put a positive spin on the results of the latest report, claiming there had been a rise in overall readiness in the public sector from 92 per cent to 94 per cent.   "We expect that the vast majority of agencies will meet the deadline or be extremely close to completion by June 30," Mr Hallam said.   However, his claim of 94 per cent readiness for the public sector contrasts with the most recent independent report from the Victorian Auditor-General's Office, recently tabled in the State Parliament.   The report found that while the Government had claimed 92 per cent readiness in May, only 36 per cent of the State's business-critical systems had been repaired.       ======   Same old crap going on everywhere. The government PR flaks maintain 94% completion and the evidence manifestly shows otherwise. We will always have morons like egan, bks, brock  and dechert.   "But, they said they were getting it done." " Great News!!  A town in Outer Mongolia Is compliant." "Mobil Oil says they might be ready if they get ready."   Yet, no one of ANY significance, on the face of the earth is yet even near ready.     BWAHAHAHAHAAHAH!   I delight in watching brock self-immolate. Every news article he posts is more gasoline on his own funeral pyre.   I am constantly amazed that there is ANYONE quite so stupid as brock left on the planet.   Individual compliance is a moot point. Not enough, in aggregate, will have been done in time, globally.   And so it is oh so funny to watch brock pathetically post the minor successes. Of course, they have the 'appearance'  of good news.  But in the big picture, for every post about some company 'expecting' to make their deadlines, there are a thousand more who will not.     http://www.afr.com.au/y2k/990615/gov/gov1.html

-- a (a@a.a), June 16, 1999

Answers

Kind of pitiful actually. Like a fish that accidently lept out of it's bowl, landing on the carpet, little gills pumping, making those "0" figures with it's teenie lips, over and over again. Fin flap. Hmmm

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), June 16, 1999.

It is clear that the world will fail the y2k test. It is true that the bigger they are, the harder they will fall. Outer Mongolia won't be affected as dramatically as New York City. In that sense, it might be better to be in Outer Mongolia.

But that's not something any of us aspire to, nor is the transition from what we have now to what we may have a year from now.

-- Dog Gone (layinglow@rollover.now), June 16, 1999.

Paging Leo

-- h (h@h.h), June 16, 1999.

ROFL

"Mobil Oil says they might be ready if they get ready."

Is that anything like "Y2K will only be bad if it gets bad, then it will really be bad"

You know who you are...

-- R. Wright (blaklodg@hotmail.com), June 17, 1999.

Didn't Yogi Berra say that?

-- Dave (aaa@aaa.com), June 17, 1999.

I think it was his cousin Flint Berra.

-- a (a@a.a), June 17, 1999.

Hi h,

I think Leo quit Y2K when he found out he couldn't make any money out of it.

I seem to remember a post of his along those lines. He was a wannabe entrepreneur.

RonD

-- Ron Davis (rdavis@ozemail.com.au), June 18, 1999.

"Kind of pitiful actually. Like a fish that accidently lept out of it's bowl, landing on the carpet, little gills pumping, making those "0" figures with it's teenie lips, over and over again. Fin flap. Hmmm "

Hmmmm indeed. I live in that particular fish. I don't know what I'm going to do.

-- number six (Iam_not_a_number@hotmail.com), June 18, 1999.

"I am constantly amazed that there is ANYONE quite so stupid as brock left on the planet."

y2k pro, poole, ddecker, mutha, kentucky

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), June 18, 1999.