Stories about: Attorney-General

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    ZOMG, that's racist! 13/11/2009 13:03:00

    Pretty much everything is accused of being racist these days. From Creole chocolate cookies to old reruns of Speedy Gonzalez -- the cry of "ZOMG, That’s Racist!" is never far away. Even our humble video game consoles have come under increasing rates of fire. Most gamers vehemently deny the charges of cultural intolerance directed at their video games -- after all, it's just social watchdogs making a fuss about nothing... Right?
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    Government flags closer relationship with IT industry over e-security 05/01/2009 14:59:00

    Australian Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, and Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy, have flagged closer relationships with the IT industry and ISPs as necessary to improving the nation’s e-security.
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    NSW govt deploys records management 09/09/2008 11:18:00

    The NSW Attorney-General's Department has deployed a new Electronic Document and Records Management System (EDRMS) to cut costs from disparate IT systems and better manage its corporate data.
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    Privacy laws to address the human side of IT 13/08/2008 12:55:37

    The Australian Law Reform Commission this week concluded its largest ever research and public consultation exercise ever with the launch of its report For Your Information: Australian Privacy Law and Practice, which recommends a re-write of the nation's 20-year-old privacy laws to keep pace with the information age.
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    Senate intercepts wiretapping bill 19/05/2008 12:25:34

    A controversial bill to make wiretapping easier for law enforcement was shot down by Senate last week.
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    Businesses get green light on IM interception 14/04/2008 19:21:33

    Businesses will be able to intercept e-mail and instant messaging communications under proposed changes by the federal government to prevent data leakage.
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    Construction of fibre network to start in October 14/04/2008 15:42:59

    Deployment of Australia's national fibre backbone could begin as early as October when the government is slated to announce the winner of the tender [[xref:http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;665948421|announced Friday]].
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    Ruddock to make the call on CDMA shut-off 17/09/2007 15:11:12

    The highly-charged debate surrounding the shutdown of Telstra's CDMA network has forced the federal government to bring in "the law" with Attorney General Philip Ruddock taking on the role of adjudicator.
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    Taskforce: is Facebook being used by sex offenders? 15/09/2007 04:29:39

    The Federal Government yesterday announced a working group to investigate the potential of social networking sites such as Facebook to be used by paedophiles and sex offenders to contact and groom children.
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    VOB's your uncle 01/08/2006 15:00:18

    Whatever your reasons for doing it, and wherever you've taken the content from, editing DVD video is easier than you might think.
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    Graffiti game cops a spray 02/02/2006 10:49:40

    A video game in which players attempt to liberate an oppressed society through the use of graffiti has been recalled by the Federal Government for reclassification.
 
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