Department of Australia’s Time Machine
(Originally published on June 17, 2015)
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Department of Australia @deptofaustralia
Leslie Nassar created Department of Australia (Hand-crafted, artisanal satire made from the finest Google image searches) in 2014. He was at times a games developer, a producer, a photographer, and a writer. In 2009, he was fired from Telstra for maintaining the Fake Stephen Conroy Twitter account. He occasionally appears on ABC TV’s Insiders with Mike Bowers and Talking pictures.rn rnIn addition to Department of Australia, Leslie is the co-founder of Wrangling Cats Pty Ltd, and created the software that manages the never-ending torrent of Tweets on ABC TV’s Q&A.
Not so amusing if your identity HAS been stolen, as was mine. Discover the wonder, as the fuckwitted multinationals whose woefully inadequate identity checks deliver you into the arms of the ‘credit reporting agencies’ whose identity checks, you come to discover, are actually non-existent! Yep, your identity thief leads the blind into the land of the even blinder. And when the shit hits the fan the billion-dollar resourced multinationals and the ‘credit reporting agencies’ barely want to know you. The latter won’t even correct the false entries on your credit record on your – the real person’s – say so. They claim you must go back to the ‘credit provider’ i.e. the inadequate fuckwits who caused the whole problem in the first place. And, our hopelessly inadequate ‘privacy’ laws, commercial and commercial-in-confidence laws, actually support all this shit. It took me five months of stress to work all that crap out. Crap that was none of my fault, but Optus’, Veda’s and Dun and Bradstreet’s.