On Eve Of Election, Australia's Conservatives Announce Mandated Filtering Policy

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 5, 2013 @02:52AM from the oh-by-the-way dept.

Dan B. writes "After Australia's Conservative party (LNP) quietly posted a policy [PDF] to impose mandatory internet filtering just one day prior to the country's election, local premiere internet forum Whirlpool has gone in to overdrive with the fastest 50 page thread ever. At 8:30pm, both sides of politics were busy running media releases, with the Conservatives hastily back-pedalling on the policy, and the Government attacking it, accusing them of hypocrisy after voting down their own proposed filter 3 years prior, stating there was no proof filtering works."

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Just a distraction by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-05 03:01 · Score: 5, Interesting

Smells like a deliberate "mistake" to keep the news outlets busy for the final day before the election. Will prevent scrutiny of their policy costings they only just released today, 48 hours before the election.