Media inquiry announced
So the much foreshadowed media inquiry has been announced. Here’s the press release from Stephen Conroy. Some idea of the way it’s stirred the pigeons can be gleaned from the reaction reported in New Matilda. Elsewhere: Tim Dunlop. NB: Previous [...]
An alternative telco plan
Peter Martin reports on the Coalition’s proposed amendments to the NBN legislation currently before the parliament. It’s a fairly transparent attempt to kill the financial viability of the NBN by effectively forcing the copper network to keep operating. The amendments [...]
On feeling sympathy with Stephen Conroy
We really must be in a new paradigm when some people on Twitter end up thinking Sophie Mirabella speaks truly and I find myself feeling some sympathy with Stephen Conroy. But that’s perhaps by the by. I think one of [...]
ABC claims move against Rudd is on
ABC tv news has just claimed that a move against Kevin Rudd’s leadership is on tonight, emanating from Victoria and including “senior ministers”. Tomorrow is the last sitting day of this session of parliament. There’s nothing on the web so [...]
The Telstra-NBNco deal
Trying to get one’s head around the detail of the deal between Telstra and the National Broadband Network company – the vehicle set up by the government to build the NBN – has been a mind-bending exercise. Certainly, it’s virtually [...]
#nocleanfeed – Aust Govt delays introducing net filter legislation
From the Oz A spokeswoman for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said yesterday the legislation would not be introduced next month’s or the June sittings of parliament. With parliament not sitting again until the last week of August, the laws are [...]
Left reasons to oppose the net filter #nocleanfeed
Peter Black from Electronic Frontiers Australia asked me to contribute to a series of posts the EFA is publishing to draw attention to its current fundraising campaign. Please consider donating to the EFA in order to fund its continued work [...]
Senator Conroy needs some cheese to go with that whine
That nasty Google is saying terrible things about his shiny net filter that he wants to give to all Australians, whether they want it or not.
Abbott and Murdoch
The News Limited papers have been pounding Stephen Conroy for having met Kerry Stokes while holidaying in Colorado, prior to the Rudd government’s hand out to free to air tv stations. [For the record, Conroy denies the two events are [...]
Google v. Australian government
In the wake of Google’s changed stance toward the Chinese government, the company has now raised concerns about the Rudd government’s internet filter. In a piece in Crikey today, Jason Whittaker reported:
Senator Kate Lundy speaks out against mandatory filtering
Jason Whittaker has an article in today’s Crikey, which I’ve reproduced below the fold.
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