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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.

While Obama’s policies were very much pro-Net Neutrality and open access during the campaign, it has taken a little while to see these policies in action (although, to be fair, he’s not actually President yet).  Today, though, an important step: Obama’s transition website, change.gov is now licensed

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.

Oz PM Kevin Rudd would gladly tear up passport to avoid overseas visits November 29th, 2008 - 1:58 pm ICT by ANI - Melbourne, November 29 (ANI): Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has got so fed up with all the travelling he has had to do thus far that he says he would gladly ...

Board Member Criticizes ABC Global Warming Biased Reporting The Agmates community has been highly critical of the ABC and many mainstream media organizations for it’s shameless promotion of the Global Warming hysteria. Now one of the ABC’s own board members Keith Windshuttle [pictured] has publicly criticized the ABC for it’s blatant bias.

One of the most important Internet stories in Australia right now is that country’s federal government’s plan to start requiring ISP level censorship of the Internet. As part of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s AU$125.8 million Cyber-saftey plan. The plan requires that ISPs deliver a “clean-feed” web service to homes, school, and and public web access points.

Author: Denis Hussey, Chairman, Tasman Transparency Group With the threat of countries retreating to protectionism in the wake of the global financial crisis, the G20 and APEC leaders’ commitment to support multilateral trade liberalisation is welcome and timely. However, announcing that commitment is the easy part.

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.