Phill Parker

I am amazed at the excessive cost to tax payers the Australian government (both former and current government) has spent on providing second class Internet filtering software, and promoting and testing Internet filtering at the ISP level. This cost will only escalate, and the government has not demonstrated even a plausible reason as to why they need to waste so much of tax payer's dollars. How many tax dollars will be spent on this project? - please provide something more realstic than your estimations to date. Why should the tax payer foot this bill? The Internet is a global network, and it should not be policed by any national government. If mandatory ISP filtering is legislated, an extra cost will be required by ISPs just to maintain this. The consumer will have to pay for this extra cost too. Enough is Enough. If this government wishes to spend an enormous amount of tax payer’s dollars, spend it on education - not on redundant Internet filtering technology. Education is the best means to providing a more user friendly Internet environment. This proposed filtering system will never effectively work. It can't, because the Australian government does not control the Internet.