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ISP data retention still an issue, Ludlam warns
Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2012 4:18 AM EST ()
Speaking at Electronic Frontiers Australia’s ‘War on the Internet’ event on Saturday in Melbourne (full video available online here), Ludlam, who is the Communications Spokesperson for the Greens, said much of the thinking around the data retention proposal …
Australia: US Copyright Colony or Just a Good Friend?
Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:04 PM EST ()
The Canberra Wikileaks cables revealed the US Embassy sanctioned a conspiracy by Hollywood studios to target Australian communications company iiNet through the local court-system, with the aim of establishing a binding common-law precedent which would make ISPs responsible f …
SOPA lessons for Australia
Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:53 PM EST ()
PIPA and SOPA may be dead in the water for now, but it's worth remembering that the most controversial part of the legislation is something the Australian Government has been thinking about for years. One of the provisions in the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) that raised the m …
'God' defence rejected
Seeded on Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:57 AM EST ()
A mother and daughter told a court only God had the authority to order them to pull down an illegal extension to their South Golden Beach property, but the magistrate took a different view. In a hearing at Mullumbimby Local Court on Thursday, Byron Shire Council argued the dow …
Balibo
Seeded on Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:06 PM EST ()
Some of you will have seen Balibo, but many more of you will know vaguely the story: that of five Australian journalists killed by Indonesian soldiers during the invasion of East Timor in 1975.
Brown slams surveillance of green activists
Seeded on Sun Jan 8, 2012 2:00 AM EST ()
Greens leader Bob Brown has accused Federal Resources Minister Martin Ferguson of turning Australia into a police state, after reports he pushed for increased surveillance of environmental activists. A report in Fairfax newspapers details documents, obtained under Freedom of I …
Serco To Run Youth Prison
Seeded on Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:51 PM EST ()
Serco recently won a West Australian government contract to manage a new, one-of-a-kind youth prison that will house 18 to 24-year-old male offenders from mid-2012. According to the WA Government, the 80-bed Young Adults Facility is designed to "assist young men to take re …
Tweet deal - social media blamed for politicans' huge pay rise
Seeded on Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:34 PM EST (Australian News Network)
PRIME Minister Julia Gillard and other federal MPs have secured a 32 per cent pay rise justified by an increased workload created by social media. ... John Conde, the Remuneration Tribunal head and a longstanding advocate of higher wages for federal MPs, defended the pa …
Cracks appear as Martin Ferguson refuses to back Prime Minister Julia Gillard
Seeded on Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:31 PM EST (Australian News Network)
JULIA Gillard faces an almost certain leadership challenge by March next year, with deep divisions emerging in her new cabinet.
Australian communications minister drops F-word on TV
Seeded on Tue Dec 13, 2011 3:59 AM EST (The Sydney Morning Herald)
The minister in charge of Australia's broadcasting standards has dropped the F-word live on national television. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was answering an AAP question at the National Press Club in Canberra on Tuesday afternoon about the risk for investment in Au …
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