Criminal Information on the Net (fwd) (fwd)

[Michael Baker]

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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 09:48:29 +1000
From: John.Lamp@probitas.cs.utas.edu.au (John Lamp)
To: mbaker@apanix.apana.org.au (Michael Baker)
Cc: efa-board@efa.org.au (EFA Board), joint-tf@efa.org.au (Joint TF)
Subject: Re: Criminal Information on the Net (fwd)

At 9:20 PM 12/10/95, Michael Baker wrote:
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>Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 08:46:25 +1000 (EST)
>From: Jennifer Cram <jcram@cooroomba.client.uq.edu.au>
>To: reflibs <reflibs@newcastle.edu.au>, collibs <collibs@is.su.edu.au>,
>        cirg-l <cirg-l@nla.gov.au>, link@charlotte.anu.edu.au
>Subject: Criminal Information on the Net
>
>So, Australia is to institute the toughest measures to censor the net for
>"criminal information" (ABC news last night).

Interestingly, and I was just about to email this info, I was approached by
7.30 report to talk about internet and this aspect. As part of the due
diligence I contacted some parliamentary staffers to find out exactly what
it was that Lavarch had said. Their response was that "there is in fact no
new statement from the AG" - the ABC just ran it as if it was new news
(apparently in response to another computer porn story) They actually
picked up the info from the Lavarch press release of 14/07/95 regarding the
Commonwealth, State and Territory ministers meeting and recycled it. I have
the full text of that release if people want me to spend some typing time
..


Cheers
John
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