Week 9 Tutorial Task

Sign an e-petition- Support for whaling ban

Thank you Mr Menyweather

Your name has been added to the Support for whaling ban E-Petition as specified below

Respond to a professional blogger at a major news site -http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/mediadiary/index.php "The Sunday Telegraph launches ad campaign" - Comment- Good on them. For trying to gain and even wider Audience.

 

 What is Barak Obama up to today?- Today, at the U.N. General Assembly, President Obama addressed a meeting of international partners to show support for the new Libya and plan for a post-Qaddafi future: Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/09/20/president-obama-un-libya-we-will-stand-you

   

What are the Australian Government's plans to censor the internet (the so-called "Clean Feed")?-  in 2008 the governing Australian Labor Party has proposed to extend Internet censorship to a system of mandatory filtering of overseas websites which are, or potentially would be, "refused classification" (RC) in Australia. This means that internet service providers would be required to block access to such content for all users.

Source: Wikipedia. Internet censorship in Australia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Australia

When will the NBN get to your place? What are the benefits?-

.The NBN will involve the laying of fibre optic cabling to 93 per cent of Australian homes, schools and businesses, providing broadband speeds of up to a gigabits per second.

The FTTP rollout is planned to reach approximately 93 per cent of the population by June 2021. Construction of the fixed wireless network is planned to begin in 2011, delivering its first services in 2012 and to be completed by 2015. There is no proposed NBN to the Gold Coast area from information gathered.

    Source:National Broadband Network 2011. What is the NBN. Australian Government . http://www.nbn.gov.au/frequently-asked-questions/nbn/what-is-the-nbn/

Find out who your local, state and federal representatives are.

Local Representetive - Steven Ciobo

State Representative-  Anna Bligh

Federal Representative- Julia Gillard

  

Look up the Queensland or Australian hansard to find the last time your local member spoke in parliament.- House debates .Thursday, 3 March 2011. Constituency Statements Moncrieff Electorate Steven Ciobo: Allconnex Water: Source : http://www.openaustralia.org/debate/?id=2011-03-03.113.1