Labor to vote on ISP filter this fortnight
- 10 March, 2010 14:39
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The Federal Labor party is set to vote on whether or not mandatory filter plans become legislation within the next two weeks, according to Government Senator, Kate Lundy.
“What I’m trying to achieve is putting up sensible ideas within my own party to change our policy,” she said. “It will be up to a vote on the floor of Caucus as to what that final policy looks like and I’m anticipating legislation will come forward in this sitting fortnight.”
The move puts Senator Lundy up against Communications Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, and the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, both of whom have publicly backed the filter.
Senator Conroy is known to be a strong advocate and has rejected public protests as well as political opposition from Independent Senator Nick Xenophon and the Australian Greens.
Prime Minister Rudd has also made public declarations of support for the filter and sees the filter as a method of stopping “awful material” from reaching the public.
But despite their heavy hitting support, Senator Lundy is leading a move to add an opt-out option for Internet users.
“I believe my constituents think there is a problem and they want something done, but they’re not comfortable with the mandatory filter as it’s currently proposed,” she said.
A spokesperson for Minister Conroy said the draft legislation on mandatory filtering was set to be released in the next two weeks, but would now be delayed.
“The Government will introduce the legislation after it has been considered by Caucus and Cabinet,” it said.
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Comments
vpn
"legislation will come forward in this sitting fortnight"
Great! I'll make a killing in offering cheap VPNs!
offshoreproxyinvester
Wouldn't you have a vote before you spend millions?
Dee
I hope someone can save us from this government , .Next we will be firced to stop reading books this government finds offensive.Call it censorship not a filter - because thats exactly what it is.
Ailie
And the next election is when? Can't come soon enough
Network Engineer
I'd personally demand Rudd and Conroy's head for nothing other than the cost/time associated with this incredibly flawed project. Why cant they take on something equally infeasible such as fighting spam; At least fighting spam has the potential to save Australians hours in lost productivity. If this filter does get passed, I beleive it will set back Australian integration of a digital ecconomy 10 years. Some of the most exciting developments we have seen in the last 5 years have been user/community generated content; I gaurauntee that this will be greatly affected by this filter should it come to pass. Ultimately, we as the public have the final say and all we need is unity to oppose it. The truth is that there is not unity within the public and the reality is that it will be passed. For this, Australians deserve the most horried legislated contraption that will drive a wedge between the unaffected savy and the remainder of the community. Further more, I envisage the "clean feed" to become nothing more than a propganda funnel for Labour's dream of a tax inflated slave ecconomoy.
Robby
I can see it now.. the axis of evil countries. Iran, North Korea, Burma, China and Australia.
I know KRudd is constantly seeking international recognition. How else can you explain all his overseas trips and abusing air stewards?
But Conroy. Instead of representing the Australian people, he represents a vocal minority of militant Christain lobby groups who have way too much power.
I hear Canada can be a nice place to live.
Dave
The difference between an opt-out option and no opt-out option means about half a million dollars per each of our 1,000-odd ISPs.
No opt-out option will waste around 500 million dollars of YOUR (ISP customer) money.
EstonianGuy
Estonian government has already made Internet blocking mandatory for ISPs. Our tax office printed the lists of online casinos and sent those papers to ISPs. That's some e-government for you. Now ISPs have to type them in to the DNS blocklists. Fortunately the idiots behind this law do not know the inner workings of networks and DNS queries and therefore their clever scheme of disabling access to foreign sites does not work.
gth
EstonianGuy - Is the list of online casinos leaked somewhere? Sounds like a good example of both why govt meddling doesn't work as well as their past revenue-obsessed behaviour.
Howard
It's too late for Labour to salvage my Vote they have done the damage and won't be seeing my vote at the next election (which is coming soon).
Rod Rye
This can not possibly be passed into legislation, without the support of at least 'some' coalition senators. So sadly, an election will not solve this issue, either it will not pass because it doesn't have coalition support, or it will pass and it doesn't matter what happens at any election, because both major parties would have shown their support for it.
Bob
The Australian Government and Minister Stephen Conroy are introducing Australians to Communism. The Rudd Government wants to make decisions about what we may and may not read on the internet. Will they now install Communist trained inspectors to dictate to the media what the public can and cannot read? The Rudd Government is adopting the similar and detestable Communist regime policies that oppress China, Cuba, Venezuela, Russia and Eastern Europea. Dictator Rudd's new communist regime is on the wrong road.
Evaluate
@dee #3
"Next we will be firced to stop reading books this government finds offensive"
Our books, cds, movies etc are already censored. This is what the Refused Classification list is.
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