Posts Tagged ‘stephen_conroy’

Australian internet censorship already underway

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

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.

Stop Australian Internet Censorship

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Visit nocleanfeed.com to get informed as to what you can do to stop Stephen Conroy from crippling Australia’s internet access.

Aussie Politicians get into MySpace

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

With MySpace launching its “Impact” space today, Australian politicians now have a presence there (hopefully it will keep them off LiveJournal).

Seeing as it’s all about social networking, here’s a summary of how many friends their page lists them as having:

  • Howard Government 8
  • Kevin Rudd 1854
  • Bob Brown 164
  • Andrew Bartlett 80
  • Steve Fielding 5
  • Peter Garrett 461
  • Joe Hockey 83 (they must like “Who Let The Dogs Out”)
  • Kerry Nettle 43
  • Tanya Plibersek ?
  • Malcolm Turnbull 70 (stunning example of appallingly unreadable website design)
  • Warren Snowdon ?
  • Dennis Jensen 6
  • Julia Gillard 355
  • Wayne Swan ?
  • Stephen Conroy 69
  • Maxine McKew ?
  • Nicola Roxon 66
  • Greg Combet 242 (exceedingly ‘busy’ background)
  • Steve Ciobo 47 (“Sounds of Then”)
  • Sam Crosby ?