Nick Minchin new shadow communications minister
Nick Minchin has replaced Bruce Billson as shadow minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. News Report. In 2003 Minchin, Tony Abbott and Alan Cadman (amongst others) formed the ‘Family Policy Group’ to persue the interest of families in parliament. All three are linked to the Lyons Forum who in 1997 attempted to ban...
Alan Jones is thinking of the children
Alan Jones has only been back at work a week and he’s already whipping up a parental fear frenzy: Children at risk from every angle Alan Jones We need to reflect on the dreadful story of a young 19-year-old woman being raped in a taxi in November last year, twice indecently assaulted as she drifted...
Is Malcolm Turnbull the answer to a censorship-free Australia?
Malcolm Turnbull may not be the silver bullet that kills censorship in Australia, but he does provide a better shot at it than Keven Rudd and the ALP. At his first media conference as leader of the opposition, Turnbull commented on something that lies at the heart of what makes the current Government and censorship...
Why adult stores sell banned films and magazines
Two Brisbane adult stores have been fined for selling Category 2 magazines and films classified as X18+ and RC. Queenslander’s can legally watch and purchase such material, but it is illegal for QLD stores to sell it. That creates a big problem and not just for retailers in the Sunshine State — for stores in...
Inflight Internet access leads to inflight porn hysteria
American Airlines is under fire from customers and flight attendants because their inflight Internet service will give passengers access to pornographic websites (despite no recorded incidents of it happening). They want filtering software installed to keep all naughty stuff out of the air (Die Hard 4 as inflight entertainment not a problem though). If people...
Gordon Ramsay’s Hell Kitchen game rated PG
Gordon Ramsay now has a video game and it’s been classified PG for its mild coarse language. At least those people who complain that games are all violence and sex can now add roasting to their list. Cheers Ben.
Online freedoms and rights talk, Melb, 20th September
Dale and Colin from EFA will present a talk on online freedoms and rights at Melbourne’s Software Freedom Day this Saturday the 20th of September. Dale writes at NoCensorshipAus that they will be focusing on the Commonwealth government’s current Internet censorship agenda. Where: The Hub, 17 Waterview Walk, Docklands, Melbourne When: 20/09/2008 (EFA says 11AM,...
Want longer lasting censored? AMI’s new billboard
Advanced Medical Institute has begun rolling out their new billboards which will read ‘Want Longer Lasting Censored?‘ AMI CEO Jack Vaisman had this to say about the change: ‘We have to comply with the Advertising Standards Bureau regulations and we decided that we would change the message and we appeal to the public through our...
Hetty Johnston links young sex offenders to Internet pornography
Child protection campaigner Hetty Johnston says the reason the age of sex offenders and their victims is getting lower is probably because of easy access to internet pornography. The evidence to support such a claim — Either Hetty doesn’t have it or the media didn’t report it. I’m betting the first. ‘Easy access to pornography’...
Expressions of interest sought for live ISP filtering trial
Round 3 of Senator Conroy’s filtering plan is underway: The Government will seek expressions of interest in mid October from ISPs willing to test ISP level filtering in a real-world environment. AusIT story here. If you haven’t already done so, please read my analysis (and other people’s comments) of the closed filtering trial the Government...
New Zealand talks Aussie clean feed
Now New Zealand is making fun of us because of our looming clean feed. They’ve even reminded us that ex Tasmanian Senator Paul Calvert once said you have only got to press P on the Internet to get porn.
Australian Christian Lobby and the case of the entertaining cannibal
Those wacky folks at the Australian Comedian Christian Lobby have done it again. They’ve taken a jab at ABC for labeling last Friday’s episode of Wire In The Blood about a sex-crazed cannibal as ‘entertainment’ in their TV guide. Okay ‘drama’ may have been more appropriate, but we all know how petty the ACL can...
