Being from The Netherlands originally and living in Australia for the past 6 years I have come to notice that Australians aren't born demonstrators. They're complainers though, but they won't go out in the streets to enforce their complains. Only "hippies" would do such a thing. Very different from Europe.<p>Next to that there is an Australian government which is, besides the fact that they're not really a government but more a sort of unfolding prime time television soap opera, extremely patronising towards it's citizens.<p>Another problem is of course and which plays a key roll in the development of Australia is that they're so isolated. In Europe there's this cluster of close nit countries watching each other. No one is really watching Australia and Australia looks towards the US for cultural and social guidance. Not the best example in my opinion...
The national broadband network is a policy to introduce a single network to upgrade the country's internet.<p>I was thinking yesterday - this is a vehicle for censorship.<p>Once it is in, the government will be able to work with a compliant government-corporation to restrict access.