Witness the end of democracy in Australia

We dont even have a decent oppositon anymore though. I've fuckin given up. I mean I vote green/labour but whats the damn point.

it's not even midnight yet!

Heheh, quite late enough. You're probably only downloading pornogrphy anyway...

According to Another Article the abuse was perpetrated by aboriginal and non-aboriginal people. Also as the ban is only on aboriginal land so totally useless? Or am I missing something?

As far as I understand the abuse they're referring to here primarily occurs in aboriginal settlements in the Northern Territory of Australia, which is very remote. Has/is there any analogous situation with native inhabitants in other parts of the world? And has it been dealt with effectively at all? Because it is indeed a shameful situation and it seems to me that it would be far worse for the government to sit on it's hands and do nothing at all.

Oh, I love the way they're ignoring 'poverty/unemployment' and focusing entirely on 'alcohol'. Well done.

That's a bit flippant. They're not focussing entirely on alcohol. I think the main issue is child welfare.

Has/is there any analogous situation with native inhabitants in other parts of the world?

see: canada. not nearly as bad but not even close to good.

That's a bit flippant. They're not focussing entirely on alcohol. I think the main issue is child welfare.

Indeed. Also: Aboriginal health in general. Fucking dreadful.

Aye. Those people are so horribly marginalized, and the areas they live in are SO ridiculously remote.

The Howard Government: continuing the great Aussie tradition of being so fucking patronising to the Aborginal people of Australia and treating them as little more than children whilst taking away all their prospects for a future and then blaming it on them, claiming that they're alcoholic dole-bludging pedophiles.

heard about this earlier today, what a disgrace. this will only benefit bootleggers.

I mean ffs have you seen some of these remote communities? Theyre a day or 2 drive from anything, its dusty dry arid shit, there is nothing at all to do. No wonder everyone is driven to drink and violence.

Whilst at the same time both parties are falling over each other to be best at rolling out "high speed" broadband across the country to facilitate ease of pronography downloading.

my friend murray sed this on another forum's thread about this:

this will also be good news for sly-groggers: those who sell alcohol illegally. when the pub was closed in the community i was in a carton of beer would exchange hangs for up to $200!

I havent been in a functional aborignal community that wasnt dry, but yes it needs community support. What is NT aboriginal leadership response?

ps Youre a bad bad bad person "seekaltroute"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Greetings Australian Government Officials, Members of Local and International Press, and the General Public. We are Anonymous.

Austrailia - 2/8/2010 - Over the past several years, we have maintained a close watch on the actions of the Australian Government with particular focus on its stance towards internet censorship.

Australia's laws on internet censorship are already among the most restrictive in the western world. Their government filters more internet content than any other Parliamentary Democracy. For some elements within the Government, including Telecommunications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy, this still is not enough. Late in January of 2009 he proposed legislature that would lead to mandatory ISP filtering for all of Australia. The stated goal is to prevent Australia from viewing "illegal and unwanted content" on the internet.

Anonymous' concern with this legislature is twofold.

First, the ambiguity of the term "unwanted content" is completely unacceptable. No government should have the right to refuse its citizens access to information solely because they perceive it to be "unwanted." Indeed, the only possible interpretation of "unwanted content" is content that the government itself does not want to be seen.

More importantly, Anonymous does not approve of the steps already undertaken by the Australian Government to control what their populous sees. Claiming to be cracking down on "simulated child pornography," many depictions of women with small breasts in pornography have been banned. Officials cannot claim that they believe the models in these movies are in fact underage, as the production the titles that have been affected are heavily regulated to ensure the age of the models. Instead they are relying on earlier ambiguous wording that allows pornography featuring models that "appear to be" under 18 years of age to be treated in the same manner as actual child pornography.

The repercussions of this censorship of a natural body type on the psyche of Australian women cannot be understated, but this is not Anonymous' concern. The Australian Government will learn that one does not mess with our porn. No one messes with our access to perfectly legal (or illegal) content for any reason.

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Why is Australia so flipped out about the internet?

The Federal Government has confirmed it is considering a policy requiring Australian internet providers to retain precise data on how their users are using the internet, with the potential to include information on emails sent and — reportedly — their web browsing history.

“The Attorney-General’s Department has been looking at the European Directive on Data Retention, to consider whether such a regime is appropriate within Australia’s law enforcement and security context,” a spokesperson for the department confirmed via email today. “It has consulted broadly with the telecommunications industry.”

The spokesperson’s confirmation was also contained in a report by ZDNet.com.au (which broke this story), which stated that ISP industry sources had flagged the potential for the new regime to require ISPs to record each internet address (also known as URL) that an internet user visited.

Delimiter has contacted spokespeople from major ISPs such as Telstra, Optus, iiNet, Internode and Adam Internet to ask for a response on the matter, as well as the Internet Industry Association, a group which represents the ISPs. The office Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and the office of Attorney-General Robert McLelland have also been contacted for comment on the matter.

The European Directive on Data Retention (2006) requires communications providers to retain a number of categories of data relating to their users.

Broadly speaking, they must retain data necessary to trace and identify the source, destination, date, type, time and duration of communications — and even what communication equipment is being used by customers and the location of mobile transmissions.

According to the directive, where internet access is concerned, this means the ISPs must retain the user ID of users, email addresses of senders and recipients of email, the date and time that users logged on and off from a service, and their IP address — whether dynamic or static applied to their user ID.

For telephone conversations, this means the number from which calls were placed and the number that received the call, the owner of the telephone service and similar data such as the time and date of the call’s commencement and completion. For mobile phone numbers, geographic location data would also be included.

The EU directive requires that no data regarding the content of communications be included, however, and it has directives regarding privacy, including the fact that data would be retained for periods of not less than six months and not more than two years from the date of the communication.

Any data collected is to be destroyed at the end of that period.

This internet censorship thing has been quiet recently. Unpopular govt beginning to understand why it's unpopular? Who knows.

they'll probably just spring it on us at some point

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