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Rabu, 30 Maret 2011

Internet Companies Are Not Complying With Police

Despite calls by some countries for Internet companies to had over information on citizens' searches and email, the knowledge superhighway is moving in the other direction. Information stored in the cloud are out of reach of national police forces. Gone are the days when just about everything that a suspect has done is available recorded somewhere at sometime. Data is there but it cannot be accessed.

The ordinary person will not have much sympathy for police trying to "background" a suspect. They see authorities as being too intrusive anyway. For years Australian social security sent out "demand" forms for aged pensioners to provide up-to-date information about what they had in the bank. A court found that social security did not have the legal right to demand honest answers. The forms are still being sent out. Legally they are still suspect. Such is the quagmire authorities are in.

Anyway, back to the case in hand. Police are saying even getting data from Google is a problem. Even obtaining information Between Australians in Australia has barriers. In some cases it takes five year to get information via court processes. In that time period technology has moved on and not everything is stored for posterity.

The National police forces' desire for greater access is like smoke over a factory chimney. It will blow away with the breeze. Companies operating across national borders will never comply because their customers don't want them to play the game. The European Cybercrime Convention treaty is a furphy. Internet companies are watching with no intention of complying.

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Sabtu, 12 Maret 2011

Future Fund Invests in Tobacco

Hypocrisy reigns. The Australian Government is bringing in extremely tough smoking laws, yet investment in tobacco companies is seen to be alright.

In 2006 the then Coalition Government set up a future fund. Its goals were to fund future costs of pensions for public servants, judges and so on. A look at the books as shown that the fund's managers deem holding shares in 14 tobacco companies to be a good thing. They obviously don't think the Government's actions to ban tobacco firms from putting their name on cigarette packets will lead to a fall in profit nor affect secure future operations.

Tobacco investment is only 0.5 per cent of total investment. However, it is unethical and it goes against Government policy. While making the highest return is written into fund guidelines, the body is supposed to be monitored by the Treasurer. There seems to be a difference of opinion between the Prime Minister and Treasurer. The Prime Minister fully supports the name and logo ban initiative, but the Treasurer said, "...the Future Fund takes its investment decisions at arms length of the government."

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Rabu, 02 Februari 2011

Could the Australian Government Turn Off the Internet

Could what has happened in Egypt occur in Australia? That is Turning off the internet. It is as easy as clicking a switch. A government would just contact the main telecommunications company explain the state of emergency and the telco would turn it off. Minor internet providers would follow.

A major problem for a government would be cutting off internet access of journalists. Much of their system is outside of public providers. Turn off that system and you stop government agencies talking to each other.

Cutting off access for major cities would be a waste of time. Television, radio and the print media could not be stopped. In a place like Australia where information transmission is decentralised there is no one person to instruct.

Let's face it - any Australian government that did pull the plug would self-destruct. There is no way the people would ever trust it again. There is also the problem of "leakage" as a few minor Internet providers refuse to submit - some are foreign owned.

Australians are just as smart as other people and many would find "work-arounds", so even if the switch was flicked it would not have much of an effect on communication to the outside. Business would be affected because the Internet is widely used.

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Kamis, 29 Juli 2010

Coalition Election Campaign Paid for by Mining Companies

Australia's new mining tax gets support from Nobel prizewinner Joseph Stiglitz. He says mining companies have too much say in Australian politics. This is particularly the case when one sector of politics, namely the Coalition, gets free adds for its re-election to government. The only way to "equalise" this situation is for unions to dig deep and pay for Labor ads. It is obvious who has more to spend - the ones who owe back tax to the Australian people. Over the last few years output and income has gone through the roof for the mining industry.

If the Coalition wins office then Australians will pay the tax foregone to mining companies. Executives will be driven in luxury limousines to the bank to check their bank balances. Then on the way home they will check in for $1,000 meals paid for by their mining companies, out of income before it becomes profit on the books.

Promises have been made on cutting company tax on businesses. But where is the money going to come from? It will come from higher income taxes on the majority of Australians.

Will Tony Abbot break the unwritten rule of new governments - never remove a tax put in place by an earlier administration. Labor condemned John Howard for introducing the GST. Yet it wasn't removed when Labor won government.

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Kamis, 10 Juni 2010

Australia Is Leading the World in Wealth Redistribution With Its Mining Tax

Does Australia need a mining tax? The world needs a mining tax. Other countries are watching what is happening in Australia. If and when the tax is brought in these mining countries will follow suit, so mining companies will not have the opportunity to move offshore.

Look at the people who head the mining companies. They are not millionaires. They are billionaires. The tax won't hurt them one iota. When CEOs say they want the Government to stop bailing out small companies that fail in order to withhold the tax on them so that their children won't pay the cost, they are lying through their teeth. With the billions of dollars that they leave to their children their offspring will never want for anything.

If the Coalition wins the next election where are the funds coming from to help the not so well off and small business? Spending will be cut. This is a reality. In Germany spending has been cut. Guess who has been hit? Opposition parties are saying it is an unfair redistribution of wealth. In Britain cuts are going to be made to the poor. Australia should lead the world in wealth distribution, not follow what others are doing. Anyway, spending cuts means mass unemployment, falling prices and recession. That is what is going to happen in Europe.

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