It seems that Minister for Censorship, Stephen Conroy has possibly already prompted the Australian Domain name Authority auDA to attempt to take down the StephenConroy.com.au site, allowing them only 3 hours to respond before forcing the site offline. Now online again in the less fascist .com domain.
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Australian internet censorship already underway
Saturday, December 19th, 2009Australian net censorship + NBN = NPN
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009Australian Government’s Internet Censorship + National Broadband Network = National Porn-banned Network
Fight Australian Internet Censorship
Monday, November 17th, 2008Reposted from Slashdot:
If you are an Australian, please take action:
1) Call Senator Conroy’s office on 03 9650 1188. Do not be rude, do not swear, just in a very reasoned and rational voice, express your disapproval, and in a few short sentences, say why you disagree. It matters a lot.
2) Write a letter to Senator Conroy, make sure it’s between half a page to one page (no more than 400 words). Again, in a polite tone (that doesn’t have to be formal, and doesn’t have to have letterhead, etc., just your name and address) let him know why you disagree with him. His address is:
Senator Stephen Conroy
Level 4, 4 Treasury Place
Melbourne Vic 3002
3) Write a letter to your local MP. It doesn’t matter what party he/she is from, Liberals will use your letter to back up their claims in Question Time, which gives publicity to the whole issue and will bring it to mainstream media’s attention. Labor members will also express their criticism, privately, to him. This specially matters if your local MP is a Minister and serves in the Cabinet. To find out who your local MP is click here
4) Write a letter to Prime Minister Rudd. Let him know that when the Australian people voted him in office last year, they didn’t know “Education Revolution” means censorship. Rudd’s address is:
PO Box 6022
House of Representatives
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
5) Donate or become a member of Electronic Frontiers Australia . Right now the EFA is the sole organisation fighting this. They need all the help they can get.
6) Write a letter to your ISP. It doesn’t matter if it’s the Evil Telstra; on this, we’re all together. They are fighting the battle for us right now, but it would help them to know that what they are doing is a good business practice, that you expect them to fight this to the end.
Don’t just sit around and do nothing and then complain about how evil governments are. We, the citizens are the ones who allow governments to become evil, by our political apathy. Move! Take Action! Now!
TiVo’s AU$699 at Harvey Norman
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008The Australian reports that Channel Seven will be releasing TiVos on July 29th at Harvey Norman.
Australian mining jobs
Saturday, March 8th, 2008I’m seeing a lot of jobs ads via Google for mining jobs, obviously the shortage of workers is so desperate they’ll accept internet users at places like getajobinthemines ($30 for the inside info in a PDF, or you could probably bribe any mine worker with a carton of beer 
and minejobsaustralia. Then again at the salaries they’re advertising it sounds like not a bad idea!I hear what a lot of people are doing is to get a job with Transperth as a bus driver (if you’ve seen their ads on every bus they’re obviously desperate, and if you’ll know the drivers are inexperienced) then after they’ve trained you up and you’ve got your heavy rigid licence try to get a job on the mines.
Australia’s Innovation system under review
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Apparently Australia’s innovation system is under review, public consultation meeting in Perth tomorrow (Thursday 6th March) with separate sessions for academia, government and industry. Details here.
Australian XPrize car
Friday, February 15th, 2008Some mob called Tilting Vehicles Australia have a car they’ll be entering in the Automotive X Prize.
Australian Copyright law review of format shifting
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008I know a lot of people out there who watch their canned TV on the bus or train…If you like being able to view others digital photos and videos on your iPod (or whatever), you may wish to make sure you submit a response to the Attorney General’s review of Copyright law concerning format shifting of photos and videos. Submissions close Friday February 29th.No doubt Electronic Frontiers Australia will have something to say about it soon.
Aussie Christmas carols
Sunday, December 16th, 2007 From “Fair Dinkum Aussie Christmas” by Bucko and Champs and Kilmeny Niland, which we’re listening to at the moment (unlike Amazon it’s a book from Scholastic that includes a CD). The song is “The Feral Pig and Cane Toad”:
The Holly and the Ivy,If they come up in your yard,The go and get the Roundup,And hit the mongrels hard
Fear and Loathing in Howard’s Australia
Friday, November 23rd, 2007To help cow the populace into submission, make sure they’re afraid of terrorism: 
afraid of drugs (or their kids on drugs):
and of course, the internet, because they might use it to find out stuff that the politicians don’t want them to know. 
