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Very well, full steam ahead.

Indeed. Discussions on the matter are starting today and will ramp up in the coming months. https://www.getup.org.au/get_togethers/climate-catchup. Feel free to join at your location.

I apologize for suggesting your head was not an appropriate implement for breaking rocks.

Not analogous. The most recent surveys indicate that 60% of Australians favour stronger action on climate change. A better analogy would be a giant rock rolling down a hill, crushing all before it.

You need to crowd source citizen lobby groups. Get organized!

How about telling the Australian govt that you don't like it?

No, the political system in Australia is a disgrace, but is leaps and bounds ahead of that in the US. There are motivated citizens trying to make change happen, but it's not going to happen overnight eg. Getup.org creators of such gems as censordyne

No, the political system in Australia is a disgrace, but is leaps and bounds ahead of that in the US. There are motivated citizens trying to make change happen, but it's not going to happen overnight eg. Getup.org creators of such gems as censordyne

sign the petition against it:

http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet&id=892

AND

let mr conroy know what we think:

Parliament Contact: Phone: (02) 6277 7480 Fax: (02) 6273 4154

Email: senator.conroy@aph.gov.au

Electorate Office: Suite 1B, 494 High Street Epping Vic 3076

PO Box 1067 Epping MDC Vic 3076

Phone: (03) 9408 0190 Fax: (03) 9408 0194 Toll Free: 1300 131 546 Toll free number is only available in Victoria

Secondary Office: Level 4, 4 Treasury Place Melbourne Vic 3002

Phone: 03 9650 1188 Fax: 03 9650 3251

Crikey has a reasonably accurate guide on how to avoid receiving a standard response that doesn't address your concerns:

http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/16/dont-waste-your-time-waste-theirs-a-guide-to-writing-to-ministers/

I'd add that it doesn't hurt to CC the PM's office because they keep correspondence statistics tracking controversial issues too.

I suggest that you have a look at Electronic Frontiers Australia, Get Up!, or Whirlpool. They have been covering this for months.

Who can I send money to...?

GetUp!

EFA are not the only organisation fighting this. Also check out GetUp.

Or you could donate money to the campaign :) http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/WhatsTheNetCost/

There is an online petition which will mail the government. So far, it has received around 80,000 signatures within a few days.

If you're Australian, you probably should sign it and tell your friends about it. Unless this meets with overwhelming opposition, the government will force it through.

Can the thousands of people who are reading Slashdot sign the petition? Sure you're not Aussies, but Australia is not the first country to try something like and it won't be the last.

This seems kinda disingenuous to me. This petition doesn't seem to require that the person is australian, but it is kinda implied all over the place.
Here is the petition: http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet/442

"Senator Conroy, I don't want draconian government restrictions on the internet that will hold back the digital economy and miss the vast majority of unwanted content."

There is more to petitions than bumping the number of "signatures" up. I'm sure many of us here could code up a script to sign up around 100 email addresses per minute for this website (and contribute ~144,000 thousand signatures per day).* This is not really the point of petitions like these, and could ultimately hurt them if word gets out that a lot of "signatures" are "fake."

So I guess my point is, why not start a petition where it is clear that the people signing it are internationals? Sure each signature doesn't carry the same weight as a local's does, but it isn't a local's signature and it really shouldn't carry the same weight. Oh and if somebody sets this up/already has set this up, link please.
*If you take a look at the source, for the website it looks quite doable. and lol at the commented out javascript.

This is a petition to stop this mess: http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet/442 Continuing on, I personally cannot wait until my government takes the next logical step and begins to open and read every single piece of mail that's delivered in my home country, and look forward to my Emperor's glorious 15th term.

For all Australian's against this governments internet filtering please sign the petetion below or contact your local member.

http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet/442

But as the most common genetically transmitted disease (especially given that the majority of the population is of European descent), many of the students may know or know of someone with CF. Even perhaps one of the 50% of sufferers who is female.

I don't give intimate medical details to everyone I meet, but of the people I do tell that I have CF (disclaimer: dammit, I'm a white male), a surprisingly high proportion of them have a niece or cousin or know a friend's child with CF.

I only have a mild form of CF, but still have to do lots of work to keep healthy and cough up all manner of disgusting stuff in revolting quantities. I've got to the stage where poor health is impeding what is (finally) a promising career. Is that charity-worthy? It's hard for me to say, but I wouldn't wish the disease on anyone, especially a more serious form.

It's good to know student politics hasn't lost its passion. The Australian government is as passionate as I am about tax returns yet still makes dumb decisions.