The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
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David Heath
Monday, 08 February 2010 23:59
In typical style, Wikileaks announced via Twitter that it has reached the first fundraising target and will reactivate the website.
For some weeks the Wikileaks website has been shut down, instead being replaced with a single page request for donations.
There are however been issues with people making donations. For instance, PayPal shut down the Wikileaks account for a few days and a contributor complained that his credit card was temporarily suspended after making a donation.
Viewing the wikileaks website we still see the request for donations page, however the Tweet, from late last week clearly states "Achieved min. funraising [sic] goal. ($200k/600k); we're back fighting for another year, even if we have to eat rice to do it."
Clearly the site has raised only a third of the money necessary to properly operate but the organisation that has brokered the release of a variety of 'hidden' materials including the ACMA blacklist, the Sarah Palin emails, the Guantanamo Bay operations manual and the 9/11 pager messages will definitely be back.
iTWire encourages readers to consider donating, this is a very important service that will help to "keep the bastards honest," as the Australian Democrats frequently said.
In addition, Wikileaks has hinted that (according to another tweet) Iceland may pass strong laws to become a "world journalism haven," which may become a very tantalising prospect.
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