Archive for the ‘Safety and Education’ Category
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Update 17 March 2010: Here's some interesting news. Ludlam has now won the seat, previously reported as being awarded to Senator Fielding. Senator Fielding - 35 votes, Senator Ludlam - 37 votes. Was this a revote?
Family First Senator Steve Fielding has won a seat reserved for minor party ...
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Monday, February 9th, 2009
School students across the country (anyone know if all school's participate?) will again take part in Safer Internet Day this year. Organised by ACMA in Australia, Safer Internet Day (SID) is an International event to promote safe and responsible use of the Internet, and unlike some of the Government's other ...
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Sunday, January 18th, 2009
Two reports worth reading:
1) 'Filtering in Oz: Australia's Foray Into Internet Censorship' by Derek Bambauer at the Brooklyn Law School in New York argues Australia represents a shift by Western democracies towards legitimating Internet filtering and away from robust consideration of the alternatives available to combat undesirable information.
Bambauer writes:
Australia’s decision ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Senator Conroy may not be Santa Claus, but he knows when you've been bad! According to our favourite babysitter in Canberra, his planned national broadband network will mean we'll see an increase in cyber-bullying and other bad behaviour online:
"With the development and roll-out of Labor's national broadband scheme, we expect ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Even if you support Senator Conroy's plan to introduce mandatory ISP filtering in Australia, you have to admit it has little to do with 'cyber-safety'. Actually, Conroy's entire cyber-safety initiative may have little do with safety or protecting children.
Irene Graham writes:
The Federal Government's 'Cyber-safety Plan' Budget 2008-2012, announced on 14 ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Senator Conroy has announced those who will assist the Government as part of his Cyber-Safety Consultative Working Group, but has the group been designed from the get-go to be in favour of mandatory ISP filtering.
When you consider people like Anthony Pillion, manager of filtered Australian ISP Webshield, and Child Wise ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Update May 12, 2009: Click here for information on filtering in the 2009-10 Budget.
Labor will spend $126 million over four years on their Cyber-Safety plan which Senator Conroy says will create a safer online environment for Australian children. That'd be nice if Mr Conroy's idea of cyber safety didn't ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Just briefly, the Internet Industry Association of Australia (IIA) has released a draft code of practice for internet content providers for public comment. The deadline for responses is 15 May 2008.
You can download the draft code here as a PDF. Details of how to respond here.
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Just like most of us have been saying since day one: education is the key to helping protect children from the dangers they face when accessing the web. Stephen Conroy's own department practically agrees. The ACMA's latest report says education about online safety would be just as effective as internet ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Brisbane Times has a ripper of a headline this morning: Net a 'supermarket' for pedophiles. That's what QLD Detective John Rous had to say about social networking sites like Facebook, and the Brissy Times lapped it up. You can't buy headlines that good!
Sure they could have gone with something along ...
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