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Access Denied - Australia Get Use To This. Courtesy of Prime Minister kevin Rudd and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy. Coming to your home computer soon. With mandatory internet filtering Kevin Rudd & Stephen Conroy will decide what information you can access on the internet.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on internet censorship - Video of the day. Kevin Rudd’s Australian Labor Government wants to impose the same internet censorship that exists in countries like China & Iran. Those of you who use Wikipedia know what a great free resource it is.

I have always been deeply suspicious of the way history or current events are conveyed. There is so much opportunity for the entropy of the “truth” from original event to end readers of texts: texts which are inevitably just interpretations and potentially filled with biases.

No doubt because Malcolm Turnbull has demonstrated his stunning grasp of economics yet again by claiming that the Commonwealth budget going into deficit is some sort of yardstick of economic failure, there’s been an immense amount of commentary on Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan’s willingness to utter the word “deficit”.

Oh Dear -The Labor Government Showing It’s True Colours Here we go again, after just 12 months under a Labor government, the budget heading into deficit, the economy heading into recession with the only things booming being Union power and unemployment.

I have written a piece on the Rudd government’s first-year polling record relative to that of the Whitlam, Fraser, Hawke and Howard governments, which is freely available in Crikey. Elsewhere: • For those with ready access to academic journals, the latest edition of the Australian Journal of Politics

Ron Boswell - Rudd Must Address Agriculture Cost Blowout Caused By Emission Trading Scheme Queensland Nationals Senator Ron Boswell [pictured] writes: The Rudd Government’s Climate Change White Paper, due for release by the end of the year, must address the predicted cost increases to the agricultural sector from an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

Well, having opened a thread that perhaps proves that Ute Man is still out there but not actually supporting Emo Man, it behoves me, I guess, to have a bit of a say about the tenure of the Rudd government to date. To some degree all these sorts of anniversaries are somewhat artificial, as you can easily see in the United States with the fetish of the “first hundred days”.

As we have covered in some detail previously, many Australian new car dealers are facing their own credit crisis, with GE Money and GMAC Financial Services pulling out of the Australian floor-plan... Click through to The Motor Report for the full article.

From 'The Poll that Counts' video series from the National Tallyroom in Canberra, to celebrate the first anniversary of the election of the Rudd government. Sphere: Related Content