Policy Matters
Australian Senator Advocates National Broadband Plan
Australian Senator Stephen Conroy was recently named as OSA’s 2011 Advocate of Optics. He was chosen for his work in championing a National Broadband Network for Australia that will establish fiber optic communications directly to 93 percent of Australian homes, schools and businesses.
Rarely in public life does a politician have the opportunity to make a transformational change to society by harnessing the advances of science in one significant, nation-building investment.
For Australia’s Senator Stephen Conroy, achieving such a feat earned him the OSA’s 2011 Advocate of Optics recognition on 29 September at the recent International Quantum Electronics Conference/Conference for Lasers and Electro-Optics (IQEC/CLEO) Pacific Rim 2011 held in Sydney.
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