Stephen Withers
Friday, 12 December 2008 11:49
Opinion and Analysis
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Well, yeah... isn't that what the person on the street would have told them? Still, it's nice to see our elected representatives being in step with public opinion - so why can't they do the same on the question of Internet filtering/censorship?
You can download the
Framework for the collaborative development of broadband in Australia [PDF, 416K], but it does smack of the current tendency for all levels of government to talk about what they're going to do rather than actually doing it.
While it's better to do the right thing slowly than the wrong thing quickly, haven't we (more importantly, they) been talking about these sorts of issues for long enough?
I'm reminded of the old and admittedly dated joke about the woman that married a computer salesman. When she got back from the honeymoon, she confided in a girlfriend that "it was terrible - he sat on the bed all night telling me how great it was going to be, but never actually delivered anything."
Maybe I'm being unkind. The Council also endorsed a set of frameworks and strategies that could - if and when they are turned into action - make it easier for people and businesses to deal with government agencies.
These include the National e-Authentication Framework and the National Government Information Sharing Strategy.
What else did the digital chatterers come up with? See
page 3 .
