Exetel has joined ranks with Internode and TPG with respect to the limited filtering scheme being rolled out by Telstra and Optus — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The head of a major New Zealand employers’ group has been fired after he caused public outrage by linking women’s productivity to menstruation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Many people’s idea of squatters will be gleaned from media reports of young people occupying multi-million pound houses in the UK’s most exclusive postcodes. Less frequently, there will be sensational stories about owners returning from holiday to find squatters in their house.
The predominant media image is one of posh, anti-establishment eco-warriors who spend their rent-money on parties and devote their energies to sustainable living. The counter-argument from squatters is that they often endear themselves to neighbours by fixing up derelict properties and establishing cafes, art galleries and workshops in their new homes.
But what is the reality? — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Internode has clarified its position with respect to the limited filtering scheme being implemented by other internet service providers (ISPs), saying it will implement the scheme when it’s forced to by law, but not otherwise — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A 19-year-old from Grafton, New South Wales has found a hole in the mobile broadband networks of both Optus and Vodafone that allows users free access to the internet.
Tim Williams, manager of Black Hat Computers, told ZDNet Australia that he was able to gain free access to any website using an Optus prepaid account, which includes free access to social sites such as Facebook.com, as part of its plan — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Two children were placed in foster care because a social worker feared they would not adapt to northern culture
in Yorkshire, a relative said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The phone-hacking crisis enveloping the News of the World intensified on Tuesday night after it emerged that Scotland Yard has started to contact the relatives of victims of the 7 July 2005 attacks to warn them they were targeted by the paper.
The revelation that bereaved family members may have had their mobile phone messages intercepted by Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator employed by the paper, in the days following the 2005 London bombings will heap further pressure on the title’s owner, News International, part of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire — via redwolf.newsvine.com
India’s health minister has said homosexuality was a disease
which was spreading fast
in the country — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Optus has confirmed they’ll be the third internet provider in Australia to switch on a voluntary filter, as rival Internode re-affirmed their position on the scheme.
In a statement yesterday, an Optus spokesperson confirmed the telco would soon switch on the filter, and that like Telstra and CyberOne it too will be based off Interpol’s list of child abuse websites.
Interpol’s list is used by a number of organisations across the world as a basis for websites which should be filtered because of the strict criteria which is required to be met before a site is added to the list — in other words, assurance that sites that are blocked aren’t influenced by politics or other external forces — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An investigator working for the News of the World allegedly hacked into the mobile phone of murdered girl Milly Dowler, a lawyer for the family says.
Mark Lewis said police told her parents that Glenn Mulcaire hacked into her voicemail while she was missing — via redwolf.newsvine.com
On 13 August 2004, in a debate punctuated by rage and tears, the Senate passed a Howard government amendment to the Marriage Act banning same-sex marriages.
Exactly 45 years earlier, on 13 August 1959, in the midst of debating Australia’s first national Marriage Act — the one Howard later amended — the House of Representatives erupted at the news an Aboriginal woman had been denied permission to marry — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Hundreds of people have marched in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, against government plans to import genetically modified (GM) maize — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A sales assistant at Harrods claims she has been driven out
of her job over her refusal to wear makeup.
Melanie Stark, 24, said her battle with the Knightsbridge store left her exhausted, stressed and upset
.
On two occasions she was sent home; on another she was sent to work in the stockroom — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Justice Secretary Ken Clarke has said a householder who knifes a burglar will not have committed a criminal offence under plans to clarify the law on self-defence in England — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The association representing Australia’s internet industry today claimed that 80 to 90 per cent of Australians would have their internet connections filtered for child pornography this year, following the release of an industry code in July that will focus on a blacklist of sites supplied by international policing agency, Interpol –via redwolf.newsvine.com
A landscape architect sacked over his use of an email chat service has been found to have been unfairly dismissed, in the latest case in Fair Work Australia to deal with internet and social media use in the workplace — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The continued support by several of Australia’s largest internet service providers for a voluntary version of the Federal Government’s mandatory ISP filtering scheme has attracted the ire of the world’s largest digital rights group, the Electronic Frontiers Foundation.
This week, Telstra and Optus reiterated that they were still planning to start filtering their customers’ traffic for a list of internet addresses provided by the Australian Communications and Media Authority which it has deemed to contain child pornography. The initiative is a stop-gap measure agreed to by ISPs and the Federal Government in mid-2010 while a review is carried out into the Refused Classification category of content which the wider mandatory filter will block.
Another major ISP, Primus, is also planning to implement the voluntary filtering scheme — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A cornerstone
of the legal system, the universal right to a solicitor upon arrest, could be jettisoned in favour of means-testing under controversial plans drawn up by the Ministry of Justice.
Legal experts including Lord Ken Macdonald QC, a former director of public prosecutions, have expressed alarm at the proposal and questioned how it would work in practice — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Major corporate members of the Employers and Manufacturers Association are piling on pressure for embattled chief executive Alasdair Thompson to be sacked at an emergency board meeting on Monday.
Mr Thompson yesterday sparked outrage by suggesting once-a-month sick problems
were a factor that affected women’s productivity.
He later started a fiery confrontation with Campbell Live reporter Mihingarangi Forbes when she questioned him on his statements — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police and politicians have been forced back to the drawing board in their fight against serious gang-related crime after a single Hells Angels member succeeded in having NSW’s tough anti-bikie laws scrapped.
In a remarkable legal challenge which could have national ramifications, Derek Wainohu, a Sydney Hells Angels member, asked the High Court to declare the Crimes (Criminal Organisations Control) Act invalid — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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