Recently I stumbled across this post on the ABC Unleashed website by Lucy Saunders. It presents an interesting way at looking at issues that we’ve posted about before [1] [2] [3] [4]. From the post:
Enjoy your unfiltered internet access while it lasts. As we speak, the government is hard at work building a device to [...]

A new article, Online Predators and their victims in the journal of the American Psychological Association, examined fears of internet predators and concluded that they are myths. Based on three US surveys conducted by the authors, from the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, they found that internet-related sex [...]

Late last month tango posted about a report on Australia’s Internet filter. It sparked some discussion and one of the main points was that we, those in the discussion, believe that user education is more important than filtering.
With this in mind it was interesting to read on The Australian IT website an article entitled “E-security [...]

A report in The Age newspaper earlier this month indicated that the new Federal Government has announced that the Software filter produced for Australian families and able to be downloaded for free has failed to reach expectations and is therefore under review.
$85 million was spent on the filter, which was hacked by a 16 year [...]

Sue Hutley updates us on what ALIA is doing about the proposed Internet filtering in Australia:
“Roxanne Missingham and I are meeting with Senator Conroy’s advisor this Thursday.  Derek Whitehead as Chair of the Online Content Advisory Committee and Vice-president is also very involved in this issue.
There will also be more information on our advocacy webpages during [...]

Senator Stephen Conroy - Telecommunications Minister in the new Labour Government, announced that “it will be mandatory for all internet service providers to provide clean feeds, or ISP filtering, to houses and schools that are free of pornography and inappropriate material”.
Announced on 31st December and reported on ABC News, the implications for libraries are not [...]

ALIA has released the results of its Internet Filtering in Public Libraries 2007 survey, its 3rd such study since 2002. They had 104 responses from Australian public library services, which is nearly 20% of the 548 services nationwide. This has become of greater interest of late with the Federal Government announcing the forthcoming [...]