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Government transparency only when convenient.
Take a look at the tag cloud below, taken from the Australian Government's own taskforce into Government 2.0 - the next generation of government and internet services. Having participated in the Gov2.0 process, to some degree, myself, I have noticed thee common and relatively core themes throughout the process. Tag Cloud access accessibility Best Practice Brainstorming community content contests...
July, 23 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Senator Conroy doesn't want small boobs on the web! Censorship: Labor's hidden policy - ABC - The Drum commentary
Labor's internet filtering policy isn't being discussed in the run-up to the election but its impact on Australia is significant. Championed by Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, the $30million+ filter is being sold by Labor as an internet block for child pornography, bestiality and extreme pornography with 'wide ranging support from the Australian...
July, 21 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Did anyone notice? "Gillard should halt ISP filtering plan: Greens" - The Australian
THE Greens have urged Prime Minister Julia Gillard to put the controversial ISP filtering plan on hold or risk affecting Labor's election chances. Greens Senator Scott Ludlam said the friendless net filter proposal is one policy that Labor will probably regret taking into the 2010 election. It hopes Ms Gillard will invest time in an evidence-based approach before jumping the gun on the mandatory...
July, 12 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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I accept my naivety, but that's the game of politics
Senator Conroy is certainly the public face of the internet filter, and Labor's Plan for Cyber Safety issued just before the November 2007 federal election lists Conroy as the author. But as Crikey's Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane put it recently, Conroy is just doing his job as a professional politician to implement policy, and the filter is still ALP policy today: "Look ten years down...
July, 1 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Another roof-insulation-disaster waiting to happen?
NBN roll-out slammed over power lines Posted 35 minutes ago The roll-out of the Federal Government's national broadband network (NBN) in Tasmania has been criticised for its heavy reliance on overhead power lines. The NBN company says about 70 per cent of homes in the first three Tasmanian towns to form the network will be connected by overhead power lines. The Federal Government and Telstra are still trying to strike a deal on rental charges for underground tunnels and...
March, 24 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Classification Act 1995 - Australia's net censorship
According to the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995, refused classification covers publications that: describe, depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be classified; or describe...
March, 15 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Your web access WILL be censored by your Government!
The following is a very important read. It doesn't matter what country you live in...the fact is, if this sort of Government policy is upheld and the Australian Government is successful in implementing such a poor, unsatisfactory approach to the whole "who's going to protect the children?" policy then it will have such broad ramifications for all internet users, all connected citizens! Australia WILL become a model! It will become the PRECEDENT. A free and democratic country...
March, 5 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Funds wrangle hits NBN rollout
Funds wrangle hits NBN rollout Font Size: Decrease Increase Print Page: Print Mitchell Bingemann | July 07, 2009 THE spearhead of the federal government's $43 billion national broadband...
July, 6 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Me and my profession
