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This afternoon, Jason Langenauer posted a well-argued piece with respect to the issues he sees in the national discussion we’re having over the imposition of the Labor government’s Internet filter. Initially, I thought it was a good piece. It’s clear, makes sense, sensible. But Jason is wrong on several points.
First, I should point out that [...]
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Parts of this post were originally a comment on Senator Kate Lundy’s blog post on the Clean Feed policy.
Today, Senator Kate Lundy, a politician I admire greatly and my local Senator, posted her views on the government’s Clean Feed policy. While hinting at her opposition to the policy, she very much toes the party line, [...]
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This afternoon, Senator Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy made the announcement so many of us had been dreading – that the Federal government would be going ahead with its plans to filter Australian Internet access and unnecessarily protect us from nasties we neither want nor need to be protected [...]
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My keynote from GOVIS 2009 – User Centred Government: More than meets the eye.
Public engagement. Public empowerment.
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The GOVIS tag line is “Connect. Share. Learn.”
So my first question is where is the conference wifi network for all of us to connect? It’s a must have for every conference these days.
Why are [...]
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With apologies to Obi-Wan Kenobi for the title…
Public awareness and momentum against the issue of the Federal Government’s proposed clean feed appears to be growing apace. Now we have the international news magazine, TIME, reporting on it in none too glowing terms:
Initially, the minister for communications, Stephen Conroy, denied that the list on Wikileaks and [...]
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Laurel Papworth is planning a protest video as the heat over the government’s plan’s for a censored Internet in Australia builds.
Take a photo of yourself protesting the government’s actions, post it to Flickr with the tag nocleanfeed and let Laurel know.
Here’s my contribution.
If you’re not certain what I’m on about, see my earlier post and [...]
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As a resident of our national capital, the references in the media to “Canberra” as an analogy for the Federal Government sometimes bug me, as they must equally bother the residents of places like Washington DC and other seats of government. But that’s a minor issue in comparison to the serious issue facing Australians with [...]
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