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Hi Kathryn, I didnt mean to single out the Australian Democrats, it is a pet peeve of mine in software engineering how a low level issue like that is geared - by the structure of software tools and development methodologies - into presentation logic and a data state that is only meaningful to a software developer becomes one of perplexity for the end customer.

One system I worked on was endemic with NullPointerExceptions being blasted out to customers - stack trace and all. Usually front-end engineers have to clean up the mess that back end engineers make with their 'throw runtime exceptions' philosophy that gets around java's default state of checked exceptions. IMO software engineering has failed when these get to the customer.