Week 9 - Tutorial Task

+ Sign an e-petition.




+ Respond to a professional blogger at a major news site.

Professional Blogger: Rory Cellan-Jones at BBC News.
Article I responded to.


+ What are the Australian Government's plans to censor the internet (the so-called "Clean Feed")?

From the Open Internet website, 'The Australian Federal Government has announced that it will introduce "mandatory ISP-level filtering of Refused Classification (RC) rated content." What this means is that Australian Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will now have to filter the Internet to block access to websites that would be "Refused Classification" under Australia's classification laws.'


+ What place does censorship have in a democracy?

Senator Kate Lundy wrote, via Margo Kingston on the online version of the Sydney Morning Herald, that 'democracies survive and thrive when they find ways to look at things that are confronting or disturbing or ugly or strange. One of the ways it does that is through the classification of material. What we are really doing, of course, is classifying people - identifying those who are too young, vulnerable and impressionable to have the fully formed opinions or sexual maturity to be able to understand the sometimes complicated context within which sit the messages and meaning of particular art works. It has never been about denying the entry of ideas.'

+ When will the NBN get to your place? What are the benefits?

The NBN will arrive within the next 3-8 years, depending on locations. The benefits include an increase in productivity in regards to bandwidth intensive services, a higher quality of application performance, high speed Internet and faster upload speeds.


+ Find out who your state representatives are.

The local members of State Parliament are:
- Hon Margaret Majella KEECH, MP
- Ms Peta-Kaye CROFT, MP
- Mrs Christine Ann SMITH, MP
- Mr Michael John CRANDON, MP
- Mrs Janet Anne STUCKEY, MP
- Dr Alexander Rodney DOUGLAS, MP
- Ms Roslyn Mary BATES, MP
- Mr Raymond Alexander STEVENS, MP
- Mr Peter Joseph LAWLOR, MP
- Mr John-Paul LANGBROEK, MP


+ Look up the Queensland or Australian hansard to find the last time your local member spoke in parliament.

On Thursday, September 8, 2011, Mr Peter Joseph Lawlor, spoke in the Queensland State Government about a Fair Trading Inspectors Bill.