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tagged: democracy, internet filter, Journalists, Labor Party, Lateline, Law Reform Commission, Liberal Party, Politics, pornography, The MediaGovernment plans changes to privacy laws: this is democracy?
Posted by Claire Connelly in Media, Politics
It was reported on Lateline tonight that the government plans to make changes to privacy laws following a Law Reform Commission report (which will be released next year) in which they hope the role of determining what constitutes as being in “the public interest” will be assigned to lawyers and judges instead of the journalists whose job it is to decide.
If these proposed changes go ahead our job is going to get a whole lot harder.
I can’t help but feel the current government (and hell, even the potential future Liberal government) are serious about centralising power whilst minimising our right to question government policy.
Why is it acceptable for the government to filter our internet, and violate our own privacy by making us declare whether the laptop we carry through customs contains pornography (that is legal to own and legal to buy), and yet they are trying to pass laws that shield them from having to answer important questions pertaining to the public interest?
For a democratic government they seem to be very interested in controlling what we do in our private lives and yet they feel they have an awful lot to hide.
Their own desire to reduce freedom in the lives of the Australian public does not seem to be consistent with the freedom they feel they are entitled to.
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