[AusNOG] conroy reaffirms commitment to filter

[Richard Archer]

At 11:14 AM +1000 1/7/10, Daniel Hood wrote:

>If you want to stop this filter from coming through, we need mass
>awareness that this filter isn't going to work.

The government doesn't care that the filter won't work.
They'll keep extending the scope of the filter for as long
as they are allowed to do so.

The achilles heel of this government is their failure to keep
their election promises and their flip-flop on core policies.
The ALP failed to deliver on so many issue: climate change,
water management, health reform, fiscal responsibility,
whaling and the list goes on.

The filter proposal as it stands is another breach of an
election promise. They promised an opt-in system, they are
implementing a mandatory system.

This is the point of leverage for this issue.

Coming into an election campaign, the credibility of the
election promises being made is of critical importance to
the government.

This is the issue that is the greatest risk to the ALP at
this election, so it should be the target of our campaign.

Imagine a TV ad...

Pictures of a hospital... big red overprint "FLIP"
Pictures of a filthy coal power plants "FLOP"
Pictures of whaling... "FLIP"
Pictures of glaciers melting... "FLOP"
Pictures of money being incinerated... "FLIP"
Pictures of the Internet... "FLOP"

Voiceover...
"Flip flop, where will they stop. The Labor Government
has broken a string of their 2007 election promises.
Don't give them the chance to break their 2010 promises.
Vote for the Internet in 2010."

This campaign needs to run NOW, force the ALP to confirm
that the filter will be opt in as per their 2007 election
promise. They won't be able to change the policy once the
election campaign has started, and if they're re-elected
with the "Clive Hamilton wet dream" policy in place they
will have a mandate to implement it.

Ideally the IIA would run this campaign as a negotiating
tactic, but they're completely spineless, so my suggestion
is to promise funds to Getup to fund this sort of campaign.

 ...R.