Martin's Desk

A few questions for the Australian Labor government, Why are you spending millions of dollars on an ineffective web filter instead of fully funding the AFP to catch paedophiles? Why establish a cyber-safety committee if you plan on ploughing ahead regardless of the evidence it receives? Both for and against? Plus, everyone but the biased [...]

Purported Communications Minister, Stephen CONROY, just wont let up how ignorant he is of his portfolio’s contents. He just can’t stop showing us how computer, networking and internet illiterate he is and making Australia the laughing stock of the tech world. Really, it is now. Of course he would prefer that

The Technology Column has a new post about the new and upcoming plan to introduce Internet Censorship in Australia. It is all going forward with a Minister who has no tech in his experience at all and who has had constant failings so far since taking office, and a Prime Minister at the head of [...]

You know, just when I thought I had it all figured out, I then come to the conclusion that I actually haven’t figured it out at all. Or have I?

I see the Smart Card initiative as another step towards being a Big Brother society: government knows what you’re doing, where you live, what you eat, what medicine you buy, where you work, how much you earn, what you do with your earnings, etc which, quite frankly, is none of their damn business. Which is [...]