[LINK] Gillard ousts Rudd in bloodless coup

David Boxall david.boxall at hunterlink.net.au
Fri Jun 25 12:22:56 AEST 2010


On 24/06/2010 4:39 PM, I wrote:
> On 24/06/2010 11:18 AM, Tom Koltai wrote:
>    
>> ... Let's hope that Richard was
>> wrong in suggesting that Ms Gillard will retain Conroy's Folly.
>>
>> ...
>> The filter is dragging down the Australian Labour Party.
>> ...
>>      
> The survey at<http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/poll/vote/>  asks: "Will
> you vote for Julia Gillard at the next election?". I see buttons marked
> "Yes" and "No". I'd be most likely to use one marked "It depends".
>    
I've just sent the following via 
<www.getup.org.au/campaign/WelcomeWritLarge>:
> Governments around the world are deeply uncomfortable with the loss of 
> control over information brought about by the Internet. Those that are 
> fit to govern in the 21st century will get comfortable with it. The 
> filtering policy shows that Australia's is not among them.
>
> A fit government will legislate to guarantee that there will be no 
> interference with citizens' access to information. Information may be 
> illegal, it may be abhorrent, there may well be reasons to question 
> access. In this Information Age, there are no healthy reasons to 
> interfere.

I wait with interest to find out whether our government will begin to 
listen.

-- 
David Boxall                    |  All that is required
                                |  for evil to prevail is
http://david.boxall.id.au       |  for good men to do nothing.
                                |     -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)





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