When Malcolm Turnbull emerged from the post-election Coalition reshuffle as our new Shadow Communications Minister, the tech industry breathed a collective sigh of relief. But despite early hopes for a fresh start and new approach, he’s mostly delivered more of the same.

A verdict on the iiNet and the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) is due tomorrow but the Internet Industry Association (IIA) is more concerned with improving relations between copyright holders and ISPs.

The Internet Industry Association (IIA) is seeking Court permission to join the legal brawl between iiNet and the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT).

With the leaking of the supposed Australian Communication & Media Authority's (ACMA) URL “blacklist”, further doubts have been raised over whether such a list, and even Web Filtering itself, can successfully achieve the federal government's goal of protecting Australians from undesirable content like child pornography.