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	<title>Agmates Rural News &#187; Internet Filtering</title>
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		<title>Internet Filtering &#8211; Senator Stephen Conroy On ABC &#8211; Q&amp;A</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/2009/03/27/internet-filtering-senator-stephen-conroy-on-abc-qa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On last nights ABC program Q&#38;A communications minister Stephen Conroy faced the music over his governments plans to sensor &#38; filter the Australian internet. 
His appearance created the biggest reaction from the Australian public ever seen on the show.
Watch this 47 second video of the introduction by host Tony Jones to see what I mean.

Senator [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pleasure Police Want To Dictate What We Eat.</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/2009/01/09/pleasure-police-want-to-dictate-what-we-eat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agmates.com/blog/2009/01/09/pleasure-police-want-to-dictate-what-we-eat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agmates.com/blog/?p=2520</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last couple of day&#8217;s we have been watching the ultimate in &#8217;social engineering&#8217; played out. We have had the &#8216;thought police&#8217;, the &#8216;tree police&#8217; and now we have the &#8216;pleasure police&#8217; campaigning for a &#8216;fat tax&#8217;. Their aim is to tax such foods as  iconic Vegemite right of supermarket shelves.
The Rudd Government&#8217;s National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economist Says Lack of Access to Broadband In The Bush Is &#8216;Just Criminal&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/2008/12/10/economist-says-lack-of-access-to-broadband-in-the-bush-is-just-criminal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agmates.com/blog/2008/12/10/economist-says-lack-of-access-to-broadband-in-the-bush-is-just-criminal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The inability of access to broadband in rural &#38; regional Australia has been decribed in a just released report an &#8216;just criminal&#8217;.
The latest snapshot of the state of local government regions, launched in Melbourne on Monday, recommends urgent action to address deficiencies in Australia&#8217;s broadband network. 
Dr Peter Brain [pictured] , of forecasting group National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK Police, Interpol &amp; QLD Internet Police Swoop On Queensland Granfather.</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/2008/12/09/uk-police-interpol-qld-internet-police-swoop-on-queensland-granfather/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agmates.com/blog/2008/12/09/uk-police-interpol-qld-internet-police-swoop-on-queensland-granfather/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is hysteria akin to the witch hunts of the dark ages. When I read this I though it must be happening in communist China not 60 kms down the coast from me.
Sixty year old Queensland man Chris Illingworth from Maroochydore has been, arrested, interrogated for seven hours without a lawyer and now faces three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK Internet Filter Blocks Wikipedia &#8211; Just a Taste of The &#8220;Social Engineering Coming To Australia</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/2008/12/09/uk-internet-filter-blocks-wikipedia-just-a-taste-of-the-social-engineering-coming-to-australia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agmates.com/blog/?p=1973</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia of the internet. With over 2.6 million pages all entered and maintained by internet users across the world.
Wikipedia has been blacklisted by a British online child po**ography watchdog, causing almost every internet user in Britain to be blocked from contributing to the site anonymously.
The British Government-backed Internet Watch Foundation blacklisted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Access Denied &#8211; Australia Get Use To This.</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/2008/12/02/access-denied-australia-get-use-to-this/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agmates.com/blog/2008/12/02/access-denied-australia-get-use-to-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of Prime Minister kevin Rudd and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy. Coming to your home computer soon.

With mandatory internet filtering Kevin Rudd &#38; Stephen Conroy will decide what information you can access on the internet. Issues like Global Warming, The Murray Darling Water Buyback, The Northern Territory Intervention, The War in Iraq, or anything critical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on internet censorship &#8211; Video of the day.</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/2008/12/02/wikipedia-founder-jimmy-wales-on-internet-censorship-video-of-the-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agmates.com/blog/2008/12/02/wikipedia-founder-jimmy-wales-on-internet-censorship-video-of-the-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agmates.com/blog/?p=1842</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd&#8217;s Australian Labor Government wants to impose the same internet censorship that exists in countries like China &#38; Iran.
Those of you who use Wikipedia know what a great free resource it is. Here Jimmy Wales the founder talks about internet censorship. Wikipedia is a banned site in China.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Communications minister [...]]]></description>
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		<title>55,000 Australians Sign Petition To Stop Government Censoring The Internet.</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/2008/12/02/55000-australians-sign-petition-to-stop-government-censoring-the-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agmates.com/blog/2008/12/02/55000-australians-sign-petition-to-stop-government-censoring-the-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian Labor Governments plan to put in place totalitarian style internet censorship is not welcome by Australian citizens.
Support for the Government&#8217;s plan to censor the internet has hit rock bottom, with even some children&#8217;s welfare groups now saying that that the mandatory filters, aimed squarely at protecting kids, are ineffective and a waste of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Control -Why Clive Hamilton Wants To Shut Down The Net</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/2008/11/29/social-control-why-clive-hamilton-wants-to-shut-down-the-net/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agmates.com/blog/2008/11/29/social-control-why-clive-hamilton-wants-to-shut-down-the-net/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet the man behind the Labor Governments push to introduce mandatory Internet Filtering in Australia.
Clive Hamilton is the face of the &#8216;intellectual left&#8217; in Australia and has been advocating since 2003 for a mandatory filtering (read censorship) of the internet.
Hamilton claims the moral high ground of protecting our children against po***ography, even though he knows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask Your Children</title>
		<link>http://www.agmates.com/blog/2008/11/25/ask-your-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agmates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just ask your children if you want an example of the power the government will have to control what Australians can view on the internet when they introduce mandatory filtering.
The Queensland education system filters access to it&#8217;s school computers. At a glance you&#8217;d say fair enough.
One of Agmates readers has asked her children what they [...]]]></description>
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