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The McCarthyist intent may be honourable, but the delivery through this legislation is dangerous. It is jeopardising our commitment to a research sector in Australia that I would have thought is important to all of us in the many fields that we deal with in this chamber, from food and fibre production all the way through to the medical and health sciences. why on earth are we therefore including a criminal offence for a researcher in that space?” – Rob Oakeshott, then independent MHR for Lyne NSW

* high-performance, neural, optical and fault-tolerant, computers, * electronics, * wavelength research (remember, wi-fi was ‘invented’ in Australia), * heat-shielding, * telecommunications, * information security research, * robotics, * human, animal and plant pathogens, both bacterial and viral, * fibre optics, * cryptography. * satellite technology. * sensor technology. * signal and image processing. * composite materials, andthe list could go on and on. nearly 300 pages long. * software for research in key areas is automatically covered. http://www.cla.asn.au/News/def...

Unelected ignorant arrogant public servants in Australia are censoring bioresearch http://victimsofdsto.byethost3...

Censoring teaching encryption too https://www.iacr.org/S=Jl1

Censoring everything http://www.cla.asn.au/News/def... http://defencereport.com/austr... http://science.slashdot.org/st...

The DSGL gives Department of Defence bureaucrats incredible power over scientists and researchers. It's a blatant grab for power by a department riddled with corruption:

http://cla.asn.au/News/defence...
http://defencereport.com/austr...
http://bayesian-intelligence.c...
http://web.archive.org/web/201...

http://www.cla.asn.au/0805/index.php/yourrights/articles/who-s-to-blame-over