Fwd: Re: [LINK] Promoting education in Australia

[Roger Clarke]

>On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Tony Barry wrote:
>>  The government, as we know, wished to promote students from overseas
>>  to study in Australia. They do so at
>>  http://studyinaustralia.gov.au/Contents/Splash.html

>From: Howard Lowndes <lannet@lannet.com.au>
>Mind you they might also respond that the site was developed as part of
>their outsourcing and hence is not their problem, but that of the
>outsourcer.

There's no 'About Us' segment of the site, so it's not apparent from 
the site's content who the publisher is and hence what laws and 
policies they're subject to.  That's in breach of reasonable 
expectations, probably policy, and maybe the law.

A company is required by law to provide their ACN on a web-site, and 
no ACN is evident;  so of course it can't be a company ...

At:
http://studyinaustralia.gov.au/Contents/Legal/BrandAustralia.html
Brand Australia
Trade Mark
TM © The Brand Australia trade mark is the subject of copyright and 
is a trade mark of the Australian Tourist Commission, 1999.
Legal | Privacy | Feedback | Full version | Links
Last update: 18 Jul 2001

ATC is a statutory authority within the ISR portfolio:
http://gold.directory.gov.au/access/webdua.cgi?e0_lfz210_60.&organizationalUnit&ou=Australian+Tourist+Commission%2cou=Statutory+authorities%2cou=Industry%5c%2c+Science+and+Resources%2cou=Portfolios%2co=Commonwealth+of+Australia%2cc=AU
http://www.atc.gov.au/about/about.htm

But the Privacy link goes to the standard *DETYA* privacy statement, 
which is a Javascript-driven popup window.

A DNS-lookup on studyinaustralia.gov.au
gives 165.12.253.223
and a reverse DNS on that reverts to studyinaustralia.gov.au;  so no joy there.

But from:
http://www.aunic.net/cgi-bin/whois.aunic
domain:      studyinaustralia.gov.au
descr:       Department of Education Training and Youth Affairs
remarks:     Created 19991217
...
person:      Mark Andrew Straker
e-mail:      mark.straker@dewrsb.gov.au

So someone in the range ATC / DETYA / DEWRSB seems to wear it. 
Plenty of scope for buck-passing there ...  Whoever's it is, it's all 
a bit of a cock-up.

Declaration:  I consult in this area, and can be expected to be 
critical of other consultants' work ...

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