What stuck out to me this morning was Kate Ellis revealing that Labor members of parliament had Australians in their electoral offices saying that the Prime Minister wasn’t reflecting their wishes, and this was the impetus for considering a change of leadership. This week a petition that 19,000 Australians have signed was tabled in the Senate and 48,000 Australians have participated in the Time to Tell Mum campaign, all evidence that Senator Stephen Conroy’s censorship proposal isn’t reflecting their wishes. We hope the similarities between both situations are as apparent to the government as they are to us.
Geordie Guy is a computer systems architect in Sydney with a decade of experience working with business and people in both the IT industry itself as well as other markets. He is a qualified network engineer as well as certified by Microsoft, Citrix Systems, Cisco Systems and IBM. Geordie has a strong interest in technology rights management as well as online censorship and Australian public policy as it relates to technology. He is the Vice chair at Electronic Frontiers Australia, a non-profit national organisation representing Internet users concerned with on-line freedoms and rights.
Shane
Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 11:03 AMUnless there is political gain to be made, politicians won’t care.
Politicians demanding a new leader because their not been listen to. The people demanding a new government because their not been listen to, completely two different things.
We don’t have enough power to effect the change except at election time, as has been shown, poli’s do.
Zac
Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 5:37 PMIt’s ‘they’re’ not “their”
and ‘affect’ not “effect”.
But you’re right. All our carefully prepared arguments can easily be ignored. It’s only when people with power become annoyed that things change.
JonBOY26
Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 11:23 AMNow that Rudd is out, I would be interested to hear what Kate Lundys thoughts/views are on the hot topics concerning Australia IT at the moment.
What is her stance on:
-internet filtering?
-mandatory ISP data retention?
-the NBN?
-the forced sale of Telstras fixed line assets into the NBN?
-and lastly, this mysterious ‘portal’ that Conroy speaks of? (lol)
simulacrum
Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 10:12 PMThe best way to send the message if you’re planning to vote labour as I am is to vote below the line for the senate and make sure you put Conroy last. If a significant proportion of labour voters put Conroy last in their senate vote it’ll make a fairly clear point.