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australia ’
The Australian Government has announced that it will force the wholesale separation of Telstra, Australia's former monopoly, and still dominate communications company.
Stephen Conroy, best known outside of Australia for his moves to introduce Chinese style censorship, made ...
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Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard was told in Parliament Thursday evening by an Opposition front bencher that she has a "shit eating grin."
Shadow Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Tony Abbot made the ...
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Update Feb 2010: This post details the 2009 Anonymous attack. If you're looking for details of the Feb 2010 attack, see:
Anonymous Targets Australian Gov. Over Censorship In Operation Titstorm
and
12 Hours Later, The Anonymous Campaign Against The ...
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Australian soap Home and Away has been running for over 20 years, and during that time it has seen many actors and actresses come and go. The show has long been popular in Australia and the United ...
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I love this one, after all there is nothing better than reading about a pair of wannabe gangsters getting their comeuppance and the hands of their victim – especially when that victim is a ...
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Everyone pretty well loves hear an Aussie talk (well at least my wife does and falls to the floor laughing at my attempts) but I’m not so sure that their preferred slang for underwear ...
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Never mind the fact that this kind of thinking is just so obviously stupid it also flies in the face of sensible thinking. The idea that we should have to have a license in ...
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The Australian Government is considering the implementation of a three strikes piracy law as part of a policy that aims to "develop sustainable online content models."
In a wide ranging "Digital Economy Future Directions" paper that completely ignores ...
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The Australian cricket team has opened the tour match against the England Lions with three good innings but zero depth in between, while only Alastair Cook can say he did his innings justice in England XI's total ...
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Apologies in advance that this post is in the first person, but I had to share my experience today, the same experience that meant I didn't post as much as I usually would.
If you hadn't gathered ...
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Ever wonder why people can like the musicians and their music but literally hate the music industry? Well if what is happening in Australia is any example it’s not all that hard to ...
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When most people think of Australian actresses and actors in Hollywood, they usually think of the obvious ones: Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, and even Russel Crowe (who's actually from New Zealand.) But the presence of Australian actresses ...
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The Chinese Government has issued a decree that all computers sold in the country must include filtering software from July 1. The software will allow the Chinese Government to filter sites it deems inappropriate on each PC, ...
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The Australian Government for the first time since their election may be considering optional internet censorship, the original policy they were elected on.
Australian Minister for Censorship Stephen Conroy today (Tuesday local time) told a Senate estimates committee ...
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The Australian Government has committed AU$43 billion (US$30.4 billion) to rolling out a national broadband network (NBN) that will be redundant before it's finished in 2018.
The NBN will be rolled out by the Australian Government directly, after ...
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In a move that smacks of political pressure being applied by one or all of the countries whose web blacklists has been published on the Wikileaks site the homes of Theodor Reppe; the owner of ...
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We all know the jokes floating around about drinking too much beer can get you into all kinds of trouble with the opposite sex and send some running or the door the next morning. Well ...
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British nurse Julie Dutton with her husband Dale Mervin and their son Connor Listen ...
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A second earthquake in around two weeks has rattled residents in one of the last places you'd expect to have an earthquake: Melbourne, Australia.
The quake struck at 4:30pm local time Wednesday (10:30pm US PDT) and lasted between ...
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The Combination, a new Australian film chronicling ethnic violence in Sydney, has been pulled from Sydney screens due to ethnic violence at the showing of the film.
The movie chronicles a contemporary Lebanese family in urban Australia. According ...
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Bushfires ravaged Victoria, Australia overnight, destroying entire towns and killing up to 60 people.
The bushfires started Saturday local time as the state experience its hottest ever day. The temperature in Melbourne hit 46.4 C (116F) and 47.9c ...
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The Great Firewall of Australia, the Australian Government's Internet censorship scheme that is being sold as protecting children has resulted in significant budget cuts to a dedicated anti online child abuse police team.
$2.8 million AUD ($1.86m USD) ...
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