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remains the most effective way of protecting children from offensive
Internet content, as well as other threats that are not addressed by Labor's ISP-filtering proposals." Tom Wood, a 16-year-old schoolboy from Melbourne, took only 30 minutes to find a way to bypass the expensive filtering system. An additional filter was made available shortly after, which Wood cracked within 40 minutes.
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September 2005, Coonan announced a review of the digital television situation. It was noted that the government had spent $ 1 billion supporting the change from analogue TV to digital TV. The plan to switch off analogue TV by 2008 in metropolitan areas and by 2011 in regional markets was regarded
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In 1999 the government introduced measures to counter the growing problem of offensive material on the Net when it introduced a comprehensive regulatory scheme which banned X-rated and restricted classification, or RC, material. As part of the program, the government also established NetAlert—which
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Internet content filtering system designed to filter the Internet for "safe" use in Australia. It represented a change from her 2006 policy to allow the ISP to remain a neutral carrier and encourage parents to install filters on their home PCs, commenting at the time that "PC-based filtering
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defeated
Brendan Nelson in a leadership ballot in September 2008, Coonan was appointed Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate and was elevated to the prestigious position of Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs. She was the first woman to shadow the portfolio. Following Deputy Leader
348:. Coonan was also the senior minister responsible for the arts. She became Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate in January 2006, and was the first female in the Coalition Leadership team remaining in that role until the coalition was defeated at the polls on 24 November 2007.
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using the Eureka-147 technology, starting in metropolitan areas. There was no plan to phase out analogue radio, but a 6-year moratorium on new broadcasting services band licenses was announced.
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access their children have to the
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