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		<title>A rising tide lifts all criminals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Australian reported today on alarm by Federal police at the opportunities the NBN will provide to cyber-crooks. "The inherent risk of the NBN is that it could facilitate the continual growth and sophistication of online criminal syndicates' ability to commit cyber offences against online systems due to the attractiveness of the increased speed," they said in a submission to a Parliamentary enquiry. The problems with this line of reasoning should be immediately obvious. When your mission in life is to thwart crime, you apparently start to see all change through the prism of your own job. Solving and preventing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.efa.org.au/2010/09/06/a-rising-tide-lifts-all-criminals/</link>
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		<title>Independent&#039;s Day and the Censorwall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Only a few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post, "Is the filter really dead?" Since that post was written in what now seems a simpler and gentler bygone political age, an update may be in order. As of today, the ALP and the Coalition are neck-and-neck in numbers, and who forms the next Government will come down to winning the support of three of the four uncommitted independents. There are a few possible outcomes from here. Firstly, if the country independents decide to support an Abbott government, then at that point the mandatory ISP censorship scheme we have been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.efa.org.au/2010/09/02/independents-day-and-the-censorwall/</link>
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		<title>Are Ageing Aussies destined for the fast lane?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon Delimiter posted an article from Exetel's CEO about Ageing Australia not being interested in seeing broadband speeds of up to 1Gbps. Here is an excerpt from the article: During the election campaign, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy revealed the NBN would support speeds of up to 1Gbps, instead of the 100Mbps initially planned — after NBN Co chief executive Mike Quigley informed him the upgrade would cost no extra. But in a blog post published today, Linton — who leads one of the few ISPs to provide broadband in Tasmania over the fledgling NBN network in the state — said it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.efa.org.au/2010/08/30/are-ageing-aussies-destined-for-the-fast-lane/</link>
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		<title>How you shaped the Election</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This election, online issues finally got the attention they deserve. And the situation is here to stay. I'm not talking about which party had the most Facebook followers or made the most gaffes on Twitter (Julia Gillard and Family First, respectively). Serious issues around internet governance and our internet future came into play, and by all accounts will continue to be significant as the situation plays out this week. The first issue that affected the election was Labor's mandatory internet censorship policy, 3 years old and counting. Throughout that time, I believe the accepted wisdom amongst the scheme's proponents - [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.efa.org.au/2010/08/26/how-you-shaped-the-election/</link>
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		<title>The Necessary Broadband Network</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week is good news for Australian internet users. Both the cyber-safety (covered yesterday) and broadband issues have had their moment on the election stage. We now know the details of all the major parties' broadband policies and can do a side-by-side comparison. Which one will deliver the best outcome for Australia's future? Refreshingly, the Labor and Liberal broadband policies differ greatly, and represent a very different vision for Australia's competitiveness in the 21st century. The Government is betting big on the importance of telecommunications in Australia's future, with up to $43 billion committed to the National Broadband Network in what amounts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.efa.org.au/2010/08/13/the-necessary-broadband-network/</link>
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		<title>Coalition&#039;s Cyber-Safety policy: mostly harmless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Internet issues appear to have finally gotten some oxygen in this election. The National Broadband Network and the Coalition's alternative broadband plan have gotten a lot of coverage in recent days. We'll have a breakdown of the two policies for you in our next update. Let's turn, instead, to the issue of "cyber-safety", the banner under which the Government has been pushing its mandatory ISP filtering policy. If you follow the news, you might have heard that the Government first delayed the plan for a year in order to conduct a review of the "Refused Classification" rating. Since then, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.efa.org.au/2010/08/12/coalitions-cyber-safety-policy-mostly-harmless/</link>
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		<title>Ausvotes 2010: Party Policy Guide is now available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ausvotes 2010: Party Policy Guide is now available for download. The guide is available here. Related Posts:EFA Fundraising Campaign UpdateEFA's 2010 Fundraising CampaignSeries on the importance of online civil libertiesACTA negotiations underway; background information from Michael GeistSenate Internet Censorship Petition Update]]></description>
		<link>http://www.efa.org.au/2010/08/10/ausvotes-2010-party-policy-guide-is-now-available/</link>
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		<title>Is the filter truly dead?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It hasn't been 24 hours since Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey let slip on JJJ's Hack program that the Coalition won't back the Labor Government's plan for mandatory ISP-level internet censorship. Whether they win or lose, they have stated categorically that they will vote against such a scheme. Does this mean the battle of the last three years has ended in victory? Can we all pack up and move on? Yes and no - but there's cause for plenty of optimism. It's clear that the mandatory internet censorship policy requires a new law to be introduced. That legislation, of course, has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.efa.org.au/2010/08/07/is-the-filter-truly-dead/</link>
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		<title>EFA welcomes Liberal stance on filter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) today welcomed an announcement by Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey that the coalition will oppose any move to legislate mandatory internet censorship in Australia. On Thursday's Hack program on Triple J radio, Mr Hockey stated that "we believe the internet filter will not work and we believe it's flawed policy." "We applaud Mr Hockey's announcement that the Liberal Party will vote against Labor's filter," said EFA Chair Colin Jacobs. "The Opposition are very welcome among the ranks of those many organisations and individuals that see the filter as a policy failure." A mandatory censorship scheme remains Government [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.efa.org.au/2010/08/05/efa-welcomes-liberal-stance-on-filter/</link>
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		<title>Data retention: Got nothing to hide?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It recently came to light (thanks to some good reporting) that the Government has been fishing around with ISPs for their support on a new and radical data retention policy. This would legally oblige telcos to retain large amounts of data about their customers' communications activities in case law enforcement needed them at some point in the future. We know this because some in the industry have spoken out, quietly, about the meetings. The Government, it would seem, would prefer to conduct them in complete and total secrecy. Ben Grubb at the Sydney Morning Herald today shared some documents he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.efa.org.au/2010/07/23/data-retention-secrecy/</link>
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