Yesterday I heard that the Enex TestLab report on the Australia’s Internet filtering trial has been delivered on schedule.
A spokesman for the minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, confirmed that saying, “I can confirm that the Australian Communications and Media Authority has provided the Minister with a report on its trial of internet filtering technologies. The Government will consider the report and comment in due course.”
So, will the report be released?
Yesterday I suggested, “It’s a govt report. If results are what’s needed politically, we’ll get a summary. If not, we’ll never hear anything again… This is called responsible government, and what Kevin Rudd thinks is a new era of transparency and evidence-based policy. Bah!”
That is all… for now.
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02 July 2008 at 9:38 am
NathanaelB
If it’s a new era of transparency it’s because we, the citizens, make it so… through community-developed initiatives like OpenAustralia. Not because of anything the Government is doing.
02 July 2008 at 3:48 pm
Stilgherrian
@NathanaelB: OpenAustralia is indeed a wonderful thing, but it also “only” makes available in a far more useful and flexible form information which is already in the public domain. The real challenge is making available all this taxpayer-funded research which informs government.
Why, for example, do we have to wait for the Minister to read and make a statement about a report before we, the citizens, see it? As the old saying goes, “If you’ve got nothing to hide…”
02 July 2008 at 4:19 pm
NathanaelB
We need to form a Citizen Communication Interception force