The Digital Culture Public Sphere had over 800 contributors sending us tweets, wiki edits, ideas, Facebook comments, formal submissions and more. This was done over a relatively short period of time. One of the strengths of the Public Sphere that all of these contributions are digital and together form a data set that can then [...]
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Adjournment Speech 4 July – Indexation of Military Pensions
July 7, 2011 – 8:12 pm
Congratulations on your election to your new role, Mr Deputy President. Since the Senate debate on 16 June on the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Amendment (Fair Indexation) Bill, my constituents and those of senators in other states have expressed frustration and anger at the bill’s failure. I understand this. Their indexation campaign has [...]
Live chat with The Australian about Gov 2.0
June 9, 2010 – 7:26 pm
Today I participated in a “live blog” about Gov 2.0. The topic was Gov 2.0, and I had over 170 questions posted. With the hour given, I was only able to respond to about 65 questions, so I’ve put a full transcript, with some additional questions answered below (marked with ADDITIONAL RESPONSE). I have included [...]
My thoughts on an opt-in filter
June 8, 2010 – 11:55 am
As I have indicated in several blog posts, I am working to change the Internet filtering policy to better achieve the policy goals of protecting children through empowering and educating parents. I have spoken before about the two key amendments I am advocating, ie: a) protect in legislation the availability of an unfiltered, open Internet [...]
Two ACT schools chosen for the 2010 Youth Advisory Group on Cyber-Safety
April 14, 2010 – 1:42 pm
The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy today announced that 30 schools would participate in the Australian Government’s Youth Advisory Group on Cyber-safety in 2010. The YAG has now expanded its membership to include primary school students. School students aged 8 to 17 years will have the opportunity to advise the Government on cyber-safety [...]
Q&A with Senator Kate Lundy
March 10, 2010 – 1:35 pm
Labor Senator, Kate Lundy, is one of the few Government politicians to go on record against the proposed mandatory ISP filter. ARN spoke with her about voting against it, the effects of Gershon on jobs and CeBIT 2010. You have been lauded by many people opposed to the mandatory Internet filter because of your strong [...]
My thoughts on the Safer Internet Group statement
February 16, 2010 – 4:25 pm
Yesterday Yahoo, Google, the Australian Librarian and Information Association (ALIA) and Inspire Foundation came together under the banner of the Safer Internet Group to make a public statement about the proposed mandatory Internet filtering policy. The paper calls for two things: That the scope of filtering be reduced from RC content to child pornographic material [...]
Q and A from my thoughts on the internet filter
February 2, 2010 – 11:21 pm
With parliament back in session I have been able to continue my conversations with my Labor colleagues about my ideas for improving our internet policy by introducing a ‘mandatory choice’ (providing an opt out for adults and businesses) approach to the proposed mandatory filtering on RC classification content on the internet. My understanding is that [...]
A Capital Talk Tri Talk Tech: Episode Six – Interview with a Senator
January 27, 2010 – 9:02 am
Podcast interview with “A Capital Talk Trio”: In this episode we talk to Senator Kate Lundy, and her senior policy advisor Pia Waugh (who’s also well known in the Australian and International free-and-open-source-software community). We should note that Senator Lundy’s comments about the Clean Feed were made before the report was released and the government’s [...]
