🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 26 Apr 1996 23:38:22 +1100, Peter Quinton <peterq@netinfo.com.au> wrote:
[...]
>I note that your web site contains a page: 
>       http://www.efa.org.au/Other/Welcome.html
>
>The page contains a link to an out of date page entitled Australian 
>Government information prepared by Tony Barry in 1994 (I have tried to 
>contact Barry to suggest revisions to the information (which was great 
>in 1994) without success). It would be more useful to substitute with a 
>link to http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/gov/ozgov.html.

Thanks, I'll past this on to EFA's webmaster just in case he misses it here.

>ps: Not all governments or government agencies are opposed to the aims 
>you espouse. I detect strong support in a number of key places.

Well, that's certainly encouraging to hear! EFA would be delighted to see
evidence of support through membership <g> Perhaps you could suggest to them
that they join :-)

Unfortunately most of us outside government don't often detect, nor see or hear
much evidence of support from inside. Mostly all we see is politicians enacting,
and government agencies proposing, ludicrous and futile laws -- laws which
discriminate against ordinary Australians simply because they choose to use
computers as a communication tool -- laws which seek to force us to restrict our
speech and discussion topics to the intellectual level of a 15 year old or risk
jail terms, simply because we use computers.

>Peter Quinton
>Director Law Reform
>http://actag.canberra.edu.au/actag/ag1.html

Please pass on my compliments to the appropriate people in the ACT
Attorney-General's Dept on one of the best government web sites I've seen :-))

Hmmm... there's an idea... given that the NSW A-G announced he had "submitted
the legislation drafted by the NSW Parliamentary Counsel" to the A-Gs' meeting
in Darwin, I don't suppose you know someone who can provide EFA with a copy of
that exceedingly-difficult-to-obtain document? :-)

Regards
Irene

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Irene Graham, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Board Member, Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc. (EFA)
For EFA Info:  http://www.efa.org.au/   or   efa-info@efa.org.au 
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"A year from now you may wish you had started today." Karen Lamb
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