Senator Kate Lundy, Shadow Minister assisting on Information Technology, today welcomed what she called a fantastic move by the ABC by broadcasting Parliament for the first time on the World Wide Web.
The ABC’s new audiostreaming of the Parliamentary and News Network will enable access to Australian parliamentary proceedings by users of the internet anywhere in the world. Senator Lundy believes that this is an important move to what she calls ‘cyberdemocracy’ with technology facilitating greater involvement in the political process.
This move puts Australia’s Federal Parliament on the world stage and Senator Lundy will be establishing a ‘hot link’ from her home page to the new ABC site.
It is essential for Parliament to be accessible by as many people in as many ways as possible and this move by the national broadcaster again establishes its commitment to taking up new and exciting communications opportunities.
Senator Lundy will be looking for more ways that the internet and other new technologies can be used to involve people in the political institutions and processes of this country.
The internet audiostreaming by the ABC can be located at; http://www.abc.net.au/newsradio
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