{"id":25522,"date":"2018-11-01T07:16:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T20:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=25522"},"modified":"2018-11-01T07:16:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T20:46:02","slug":"fair-dinkum-power-mb0808","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/fair-dinkum-power-mb0808\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannon-Brookes Throws Down Gauntlet On PM&#8217;s &#8220;Bullshit&#8221; Fair Dinkum Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25523\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25523\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25523\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fair-dinkum-power.jpg\" alt=\"Fair Dinkum Power - Mike Cannon Brookes\" width=\"800\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fair-dinkum-power.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fair-dinkum-power-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fair-dinkum-power-768x436.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Images: Mike Cannon-Brookes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes has taken exception to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison&#8217;s &#8220;fair dinkum power&#8221; approach and is creating a brand from the three words.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the video from Australia&#8217;s PM that raised his ire.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You asked about how we&#8217;re getting electricity prices down.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s my answer. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LFrxFLcLpR\">pic.twitter.com\/LFrxFLcLpR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Scott Morrison (@ScottMorrisonMP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottMorrisonMP\/status\/1054608586125402113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Cannon Brookes&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcannonbrookes\/status\/1057463099941257217\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">response<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u26a1 Argh! Bullshit mate ? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottMorrisonMP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ScottMorrisonMP<\/a> you&#8217;ve made me mad &amp; inspired me. We need a movement. We need a brand for Australia\u2019s energy future. We need a rallying cry for Australians who believe in \u2600\ufe0f ?\ufe0f &amp; ?. You said it perfectly: \u201cFair Dinkum Power\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/fairdinkumpower?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#fairdinkumpower<\/a> 1\/2 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cbLOCAvM2f\">https:\/\/t.co\/cbLOCAvM2f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike Cannon-Brookes ??\u200d?? (@mcannonbrookes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcannonbrookes\/status\/1057463099941257217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 31, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Cannon-Brookes went on to tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure you know what fair dinkum means. It means fair to Aussies, to our wallets AND to the planet. \u26a1 can be reliable, renewable &amp; cheap. @fairdinkumpower registered. Let me get back to you with some logo concepts. Give me an hour.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He returned with a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcannonbrookes\/status\/1057489268887744512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">variety of logos<\/a>, including this one that was voted most popular as of this morning:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fair-dinkum-power.png\" alt=\"Fair Dinkum Power Logo\" width=\"470\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fair-dinkum-power.png 470w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fair-dinkum-power-300x243.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/>As for the new Twitter account, at the time of publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fairdinkumpower\">@fairdinkumpower<\/a> was &#8220;temporarily restricted&#8221; by Twitter due to what it says was unusual activity.<\/p>\n<p>The PM shouldn&#8217;t brush off the tweetfest &#8211; Mr. Cannon-Brookes has some clout and Mr. Morrison might find he loses control of his message, if he hasn&#8217;t done so already.<\/p>\n<p>It was a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcannonbrookes\/status\/839762954887180289?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweet from Mr. Cannon-Brookes<\/a> to Tesla&#8217;s Elon Musk back in March 2017 that helped see South Australia&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/tesla-big-battery-sa-mb0340\/\">Big Battery<\/a>&#8221; become reality, and in record time.<\/p>\n<p>On a related note, with &#8220;fair dinkum power&#8221; now firmly in Australia&#8217;s lexicon it&#8217;s no surprise that someone has registered the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairdinkumpower.com.au\">fairdinkumpower.com.au<\/a> domain name &#8211; and it redirects to RenewEconomy, a site focused on renewable energy. Scott Morrison and Energy Minister Angus Taylor missed an opportunity there.<\/p>\n<h2>Who Is Mike Cannon-Brookes?<\/h2>\n<p>In case you haven&#8217;t heard of him, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mcannonbrookes\/?originalSubdomain=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Cannon-Brookes<\/a> is the co-founder and co-CEO of collaboration software company Atlassian. He is an angel investor in Shoes of Prey, Ninjablocks and Tyro Payments, a Venture Partner at Blackbird Ventures and a mentor\/investor at Startmate.<\/p>\n<p>He was the lead backer for home energy funding platform Brighte, which provides on-the-spot finance for solar power and battery systems, plus other home improvements. Brighte was founded by Katherine McConnell in 2015 after her long stint in investment banking and financial services.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Cannon-Brookes is also an adjunct professor at the University of New South Wales&#8217; School of Computer Science and Engineering, assisting students with start-up ventures, and one of UNSW&#8217;s most high-profile graduates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes has taken exception to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison&#8217;s &#8220;fair dinkum power&#8221; approach and is creating a brand from the three words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":25523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cannon-Brookes Challenges PM&#039;s &quot;Bullshit&quot; 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