privacy

“The government and the alternative government continue to score very badly on privacy”, said Roger Clarke, Chair of the Australian Privacy Foundation (APF).

The Australian Privacy Foundation set an Election Challenge in July 2007, asking the Parties to declare their positions on 8 critical privacy issues. The APF’s assessment is:

• The Coalition 1.5 / 10
• Labor 4.5 / 10
• The Greens 8.0 / 10
• The Democrats 9.0 / 10

"The recent 2006 ABS statistics demonstrate that, contrary to perceptions about the increasing influence of new evangelical churches,
Australia is undergoing a continuing shift towards less religious belief.", said John August, NSW Secretary and media spokesperson for the
Secular Party of Australia.

The statistics show that young people are becoming more non religious. Lisa Pryor wrote recently 'Atheism is a wonderful gift to give a
child'.

Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) is appalled by Friday's announcement that the federal government will force all Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Australia to provide 'filtered' Internet connections upon request.

The whole saga only developed las week, on Wednesday and Thursday, after they actually threatened "to go" blogger Peter Brent, from http://www.mumble.com.au , and Charles Richardson (from Crikey) who had both been quite effective and meticulous in their critical dissecting of The Australian's analysis and opinion pieces, especially regarding The Australian's interpretation of polling data. Next, the Blog Wars between the Mainstream Media (MSM) and the Oz Blogosphere escalated to unseen polemical heights.

In a recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald, Bill Orme, former executive member of the N.S.W. Privacy Committee, states that there are blacklists of people who are never to be employed by the State Government.

If anyone believes that Healthquest is not still part of our mis-government, the Auditor-General's report should clear that up.

Audit Office’s Report on HealthQuest

Today I was talking to an employee of WOW Sight and Sound (electronics superstore). They told me some startling facts about the surveillance that they have to put up with while working.

In the store that they worked in, there were over 100 security cameras watching all parts of the store. Managers from head office can log in and see through any one of them in realtime, at anytime. This happens at all stores.

English 101: How a kangaroo Court determines the competency of an Application

1. Justice North appears to have erred on deferring the ruling of the competency of the application to the Respondent, rather making his own judgement by what he sees, making the Court appearing to be running the respondent’s case; as evidenced by Line 15 in the Transcript;

2. Sparke Helmore and the Respondent failed to provide this court with reasons why the Application was “incompetent”;

Stop Voting - Stop Supporting Pseudo Democracies [254]
Just as communicating with the Feds about abandoning the way we live now is a futile process that only buttresses the legitimacy of old ways of thinking and living, continuing to vote within centralised political processes only reinforces their continuing relevance. Citizens who continue to reside within totalitarian-democracies can, at least partly, abandon them by not voting at elections that will never lead to abundance and a better way of living.