Fielding beats Ludlam to a seat on Cyber-Safety Committee
March 16, 2010 – 8:43 pmUpdate 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 and independent senators on the Joint Select Committee on Cyber-Safety. He beat Greens Senator Scott Ludlam by two votes.
A ballot was held in the upper house on Tuesday to decide which minor party or independent senator would be appointed to a federal parliamentary committee on cyber-safety.
In a very close secret vote, Senator Fielding was awarded the job with 34 votes to Senator Ludlam’s 32.
The Joint Select Committee on Cyber-Safety will look at online bullying, stalking, sexual grooming, the development of addictions, identity theft and privacy breaches.
The committee, which was proposed by Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government Anthony Albanese, will investigate and report on:
- abuse of children online (cyber-bullying, cyber-stalking and sexual grooming);
- exposure to illegal and inappropriate content;
- inappropriate social and health behaviours in an online environment (e.g. technology addiction, online promotion of anorexia, drug usage, underage drinking and smoking);
- identity theft; and
- breaches of privacy.
- increasing awareness of cyber-safety good practice;
- encouraging schools to work with the broader school community, especially parents, to develop consistent, whole school approaches; and
- analysing best practice approaches to training and professional development programs and resources that are available to enable school staff to effectively respond to cyber-bullying.
Of course, Albanese also noted that the government will introduce into parliament legislation for mandatory ISP level filtering.
15 Responses to “Fielding beats Ludlam to a seat on Cyber-Safety Committee”
*Groans*
By bret treasure on Mar 16, 2010
this is a disaster!
By Jeremy Grey on Mar 16, 2010
That’s like naming the CEO of BP to chair an investigation committee on petrol pricing.
By Simon on Mar 16, 2010
Bugger.
Still, the forces of reaction, given enough rope etc…
By Philch on Mar 16, 2010
And, this took place in the Upper House which is controlled by the Coalition.
By Womp on Mar 16, 2010
I’m in Albanese’s electorate, and I’ve made several meeting requests on this issue over the last year, without even getting an acknowledgement of the request.
Probably filtering those out already…
By Mike on Mar 16, 2010
This is a travesty.
We NEEDED Sen Ludlum on this committee, he seems to be the only one with the brains to see through this evil scheme.
Net censorship, here we come.
By Max T on Mar 17, 2010
So we lose the best person to have on this committee … to the worst person to have on this committee. Brilliant.
By Sansha on Mar 17, 2010
How can we possibly take anything this committee says seriously now?
Our only hope is to make sure that Fielding is voted out asap!
By Fictitious1 on Mar 17, 2010
Yes, let’s hope the committee doesn’t manage to do anything before the next election, where it’ll be too late for Mr 1.9%.
By Jeremy on Mar 17, 2010
There was a revote today, which was won by Ludlam.
See the final point of item #8:
http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/DynamicRed/Index.html
Obviously this means Ludlam and not Fielding will be on the committee.
By Eddie on Mar 17, 2010
W00t!
By Fictitious1 on Mar 18, 2010
Eddie, that’s fantastic news!
By Sansha on Mar 18, 2010
Guy Barnett got a guernsey though. He’s on the same planet as Fielding although he’s a Lib.
http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jscc/members.htm
By GWT on Mar 19, 2010
The link you have to the Senate vote is a dynamic page recreated daily. So the vote is missing off current version.
There are daily summaries of the Senate here:
http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/pubs/daily/index.htm
But I can’t find the actual vote in question.
By Leefe on Mar 21, 2010