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• NSW Greens use social media in lead up to 2011 state election

  Maintaining a genuine online presence and leveraging technology have been essential in the lead up to the 2011 NSW state election, Green’s candidate for Balmain, Jamie Parker, has said.

• Conroy to receive secret filter forum report

  The Greens have dug up a handful of further details about Labor’s controversial mandatory filter project through the questions on notice procedure, including the fact that Communications Minister Stephen Conroy will shortly receive a report on a confidential online forum held by his department on the topic in April this year.

• NBN could be used to bring down the minority government: Ludlam

  Greens Communications Spokesman Scott Ludlam today welcomed Malcolm Turnbull’s appointment as Shadow Communications Minister but warned the Liberal heavyweight against “wrecking” Labor’s National Broadband Network project.

• Senate data retention inquiry to be delayed

  Greens senator, Scott Ludlam, will propose a Senate inquiry’s report into data retention and online privacy be delayed when Parliament next sits.

• Mandatory offering of PC-based filters under Greens cyber safety policy

  The Australian Greens has released its own cyber-safety policy to rival that of the two major parties, with the central planks being an obligation for ISPs to offer PC- or modem-based filtering technology to customers, stronger cybercrime law enforcement and better research and education in the field.

• Keep the NBN in public hands: iiNet

  iiNet has joined Optus in expressing support for the Greens’ call for NBN Co to be kept in public hands, rather than sold off five years after its completion.

• Senate committee to investigate data retention by ISPs

  A Senate Committee will launch an inquiry into the collection of online data by Government agencies and private companies, including Internet service providers (ISPs).

• Support accelerates against NBN Co privatisation

  Support for the Federal Government to keep the key National Broadband Network (NBN) wholesaler NBN Co in public hands has continued to grow among both the industry and the Opposition.
  

• Greens, EFA critical of ISP filtering plans

  The chorus of voices critiquing the Federal Government’s mandatory ISP-level filtering plans has grown larger with the Greens and Electronic Frontiers Australia joining the likes of the Federal Opposition and Google in opposing the filter.