Ok to SMS the PM? Julia Gillard inspects a student's phone at St
Mary Mackillop College in Canberra.  Ok to SMS the PM? Julia
Gillard inspects a student's phone at St Mary Mackillop College
in Canberra. Photo: Andrew Meares   The two local politicians
have found themselves engaged in an old-school versus new-school
war of communication.  Senator Humphries said he was surprised
to hear Dr Leigh proclaiming that he had texted Julia Gillard
asking her to allow Canberra to host the G20 when it came to
Australia in 2014.  Senator Humphries asked a question on notice
to government Senate leader Chris Evans about whether the Prime
Minister had actually received the text and whether it was
''standard practice for members of parliament to make
representations to the Prime Minister by text message''.  ''It
raises many issues to me, the first being about whether this is
an appropriate way to raises important issues with the office of
the Prime Minister. I mean, does Julia Gillard race back from
question time to check he