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1996 Federal Government elections on the Internet
Cast a Virtual Vote for your local member in your electorate


Call for Contributions

Live Internet coverage of Election Night March 2nd from the Tally Room,
Canberra.

Netcetera is currently organising the live internet coverage of the
elections for the night of March 2nd (see below for more information about
us and the web site). As part of this independent news coverage we wish to
include live results and an additional multimedia dimension, that of
vision and sound from the Tally Room using technology such as Quick Take,
Quick Time, Real Audio and ShockWave.
Collaboration with CBAA for audio and text based coverage is currently
being discussed.

In order to present a complete multimedia coverage we need contributors
for vision from the Tally Room on March 2nd to record/Quicktake and ftp
'vision' to our web server.

This may be of interest to Photographers, Journalists  and/or senior
students in Journalism and/or senior students in Media Communications  .

Contributors should be equipped with a Quicktake camera 150 (preferably),
as well as the adequate software/hardware necessary to transfer, compress
and ftp the vision taken to our web server.

Given the very tight time frame of this election campaign and the rapid
growth of 'mainstream' media election content on the Internet, I would
appreciate a response as soon as possible.


I would like to point out that as co-ordinator of this project, I  take
full responsibility to ensure that the information provided to us is
published in its integrality and free of distortions. Having been a
Community Radio Broadcaster for ten  years (2SER, 2RSR, BAY FM, PBAA/CBAA)
and a  student in Media Communications (SCU), I am aware of all issues
surrounding information integrity and the legal issues inherent in
electronic news publishing. 

Note: The section covering independent news will remain free of
sponsorship and advertising. Netcetera reserves the right to obtain
'politically neutral' sponsorship for others sections of the Web site
(i.e.; the voting section and/or links section) for covering the
communication expenses incurred in this project.

Richard Cadiou
rcadiou@netcetera.net.au
Tel:  066 855 364
Fax: 066 855 469


Background

Netcetera is a small/medium sized Multimedia publishing business based in
Byron Bay, Northern NSW. Our latest Community-based service operation is
the 1996 Federal Government Election Internet Site. On line since Thursday
March 15 th, the site has already caught the attention of such media as
the Australian Financial Review, The West Australian , ABC TV, Prime TV,
ABC Radio, ABC Online, SMH online, Internet.au, Internet Australasia, PC
Week, as well as numerous local and regional newspapers . The site also
linked from numerous sites and indexes.

Site circulation is currently experiencing rapid circulation growth. The
main feature of this Internet site is live polling providing internet
users with the opportunity to cast a virtual vote  for every candidate in
the Federal Government  Election 96 . Every electorate features candidate
pictures and profiles as well as maps and statistics from the Australian
Electoral Commission.

Note: This project is totally independent and has not received any kind of
funding from any political parties, government agencies/departments or
commercial organisations.
The site is hosted on a virtual domain :
http://www.netcetera.net.au/elections. Hosting is provided by om.com
Internet providers as a community service